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On 11/13/18 9:49 AM, Zac Medico wrote: |
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> On 11/11/18 12:53 PM, Michał Górny wrote: |
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>> Hi, |
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>> |
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>> Ok, here's the second version integrating the feedback received. |
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>> The format is much simpler, based on nested tarballs inspired by Debian. |
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>> |
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>> The outer tarball is uncompressed and uses '.gpkg.tar' suffix. It |
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>> contains (preferably in order but PM should also handle packages with |
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>> mismatched order): |
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>> |
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>> 1. Optional (but recommended) "gpkg: ${PF}" package label that can be |
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>> used to quickly distinguish Gentoo binpkgs from regular tarballs |
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>> (for file(1)). |
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>> 2. "metadata.tar${comp}" tarball containing binary package metadata |
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>> as files. |
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>> 3. Optional "metadata.tar${comp}.sig" containing detached signature |
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>> for the metadata archive. |
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>> 4. "contents.tar${comp}" tarball containing files to be installed. |
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>> 5. Optional "contents.tar${comp}.sig" containing detached signature for |
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>> the contents archive. |
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> We'll want to access "contents.tar${comp}.sig" very early, but in the |
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> absence of an index containing offsets, normally we'd have to read all |
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> of "contents.tar${comp}" first. However, I suppose we could search |
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> backwards for the "contents.tar${comp}.sig" entry. |
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We could solve this problem by adding an index file containing offsets |
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as the last file in the outer tar file. |
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Thanks, |
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Zac |