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From: hasufell <hasufell@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: GLEP 64: Export Package Manager Cached Information. (Was: RFC: GLEP 64: Standardize contents of VDB and establish and API for exporting this information.)
Date: Sat, 06 Sep 2014 13:58:25
Message-Id: 540B12F3.3070606@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: GLEP 64: Export Package Manager Cached Information. (Was: RFC: GLEP 64: Standardize contents of VDB and establish and API for exporting this information.) by "Anthony G. Basile"
1 Anthony G. Basile:
2 >>
3 >>> A list of all files belonging to the package, along with a designation
4 >>> of the file type (regular, directory, symlink, pipe, etc), MD5SUM or
5 >>> other checksum, and mtime time.
6 >> Packages aren't allowed to install pipes.
7 >
8 > Okay I will remove pipes. Do you have a reference btw about what types
9 > of files can be installed.
10 >
11
12 http://dev.gentoo.org/~ulm/pms/head/pms.html#x1-15800012.6
13
14 > 12.6 Other Files
15 >
16 > Ebuilds must not attempt to install any other type of file (FIFOs, device nodes etc).
17
18 The explicit list of allowed ones is in the chapters above.