Re: [gentoo-dev] VDB access

[Ciaran McCreesh]

On Wed, 06 Feb 2008 14:24:28 +0100
Michael Haubenwallner <haubi@g.o> wrote:
> +1 for general metadata query interface.
>
> In prefix (specifically on AIX) we have some nasty requirement to
> merge object files inside archive files, because shared-objects
> should be members of a static libraries, fex libstdc++.so.6 is an
> archive member of libstdc++.a.
>
> This (still experimental) inside-library-merge currently is done using
> some hackery in profile.bashrc, but this requires access to
> vdb/CONTENTS in pre_pkg_postrm() to clean up after unmerge.

CONTENTS isn't metadata in the conventional sense... If someone's
redesigning VDB, they're very unlikely to keep CONTENTS in the same
format. So you'd need a second, different interface for that...

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh