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Hi, |
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Danny van Dyk wrote: |
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> On the other hand, if you want to search for a package name via |
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> metadata, you have to traverse the whole tree. Quite unhandy if done w/o |
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> a cache and not yet implemented AFAIK. |
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It is implemented, see app-portage/eix or app-portage/esearch, but these |
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both depend on cache, which has to be updated regulary. |
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> I would like to propose the following changes: |
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> Let's keep the metadata.xml in each package's directory in _CVS only_. |
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> Don't propagate them via rsync. Instead, use a script to compile all |
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> metadata.xml files into one central (XML) file. (This would probably |
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> need slight changes to the DTD). This file would then be placed into |
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> gentoo-portage/metadata/ and Portage,devs and users could easily parse it. |
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Sounds good, if your script validates the per-package metadata.xml |
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before transform it to the global one. It'd really suck if a single |
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missing '>' could screw the whole tree's metadata. This shouldn't be a |
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problem, especially if you transform the information with XSLT. |
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I definitively like the idea, it should speed up emerge -s enormously |
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and save quite some inodes. A reduction of 8% of files sounds really good. |
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Greetings, |
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blubb |
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blubb |
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Gentoo/AMD64 Developer |
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http://www.blubb.li/ |
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