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On Tue, 2022-09-06 at 12:18 +0200, Florian Schmaus wrote: |
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> On 06.09.22 11:33, Michał Górny wrote: |
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> > Hi, everyone. |
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> > Since we've been standardizing some things in Gentoo lately, I was |
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> > thinking we could try to get some media types registered with IANA. |
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> > Particularly, I'm thinking of registering our Manifest format [1] as: |
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> > |
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> > text/vnd.gentoo.manifest |
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> > and our new binary package container format [2] as: |
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> > |
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> > application/vnd.gentoo.gpkg |
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> > However, the process is non-trivial and I'm not sure if the latter |
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> > really qualifies, given we're only specifying the container and not |
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> > the complete data format. To be honest, the specs are quite huge |
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> > and I'd really appreciate some help grasping all of this. |
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> > |
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> > Perhaps ebuilds and eclasses would also qualify for registration. |
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> > WDYT? |
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> |
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> If you are happy to put in the effort, then I would go for it. Some |
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> (most?) IANA registries are relatively easy to get in. I have some, but |
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> somewhat little, experience with IANA due my XMPP background and I am |
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> happy to assist. |
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Thanks, I'll keep that in mind. That said, I just noticed that Debian |
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has their binpkg format registered, so I may be able to get some |
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inspiration there ;-). |
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Best regards, |
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Michał Górny |
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