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Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> wrote: |
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>> Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> wrote: |
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>>>>>>>> On Sat, 26 Jul 2014, Martin Vaeth wrote: |
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>>> |
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>>>> Quite the opposite, PMS claims that one cannot rely on |
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>>>> anything stored in /var/db |
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>>> Where does it say so? |
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> |
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>> "Appendix B: Unspecified Items |
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> |
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>> The following items are not specified by this document, |
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>> and must not be relied upon by ebuilds. |
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>> [...] |
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>> The VDB (/var/db/pkg) |
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>> [...]" |
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> |
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> This says that ebuilds must not access the VDB. It says nothing about |
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> the package manager doing so. |
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Nobody claimed the contrary. PM != PMS. The behaviour of PM |
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concerning /var/db is "just" undocumented (as concerns PMS). |
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