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From: Danny van Dyk <kugelfang@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Treewide metadata.xml
Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 10:35:27
Message-Id: 4296F895.1090602@gentoo.org
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4 Hi @ all,
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6 I'd like to have some feedback on an idea that stuck to my mind for some
7 time already:
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9 Currently, we (should) have one metadata.xml file per package (8635 in
10 the whole tree). This is quite handy if you want to look up information
11 about a package you know by name.
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13 On the other hand, if you want to search for a package name via
14 metadata, you have to traverse the whole tree. Quite unhandy if done w/o
15 a cache and not yet implemented AFAIK.
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17 I would like to propose the following changes:
18 Let's keep the metadata.xml in each package's directory in _CVS only_.
19 Don't propagate them via rsync. Instead, use a script to compile all
20 metadata.xml files into one central (XML) file. (This would probably
21 need slight changes to the DTD). This file would then be placed into
22 gentoo-portage/metadata/ and Portage,devs and users could easily parse it.
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24 TIA for any feedback on this!
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26 PS: Ciaran: Leave me alive please ;-)
27 PPS: Yes, I'd volounteer to write that compilation script.
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29 Danny
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31 Danny van Dyk <kugelfang@g.o>
32 Gentoo/AMD64 Project, Gentoo Scientific Project
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Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Treewide metadata.xml Michael Hanselmann <hansmi@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Treewide metadata.xml Simon Stelling <blubb@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Treewide metadata.xml Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Treewide metadata.xml Aaron Walker <ka0ttic@g.o>