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On 08/31/14 08:43, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> On Sun, 31 Aug 2014 08:38:00 -0400 |
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> "Anthony G. Basile" <blueness@g.o> wrote: |
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>> Not exactly. The point is to *standardize* what is meant by "all |
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>> information" so that all package managers export the same minimum set |
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>> of information. The most important being NEEDED.ELF.2 which is |
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>> portage's VDB but not paludis. Also, it can be in any format and |
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>> exported in any way so long as it is well documented. The goal is to |
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>> have tools other than PM's make use of this information. The example |
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>> that began this is revdep-pax which uses NEEDED.ELF.2 to trace out |
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>> linking so as to migrate PaX flags between ELF objects. |
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> VDB is completely non-standard, undocumented, and hard to read |
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> correctly. There's no point in having information if you aren't allowed |
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> to use it. |
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VDB as exported by portage is readable and useful to non-PM tools. I'd |
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give you a link to git.gentoo.org/proj/elfix as a concrete example, but |
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the site is still down. This usefulness suggests that it should be |
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standardize and documented so that VDB information can be read correctly |
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by non-PM tools. |
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