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Sebastian Pipping wrote: |
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> A) Download and keep a snapshot of layman-global.txt in sync ourselves |
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> B) Use heuristic on layman's cache |
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> - Resolve ${cache} from /etc/layman/layman.cfg |
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> - Parse all ${cache}/cache_*.xml files using the Layman API |
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> - Compare the list of overlays each file provides against |
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> a hardcoded snapshot of overlay names ("akoya alexxy arcon ..") |
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> - Assume the file with the highest count of matches for |
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> layman-global.txt if the count is >=50 of the number hardcoded |
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> overlays |
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forget about (B). as we're dealing with privacy a 100% approach |
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is much better than some heuristic. |
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i'll keep an extra copy of layman-global.txt in sync and |
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use modification timestamps on any file in layman's cache dir |
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as trigger to re-sync with layman-global.txt from the web. |
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that's an optimized version of (A) to me. |
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sebastian |
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