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| From: | Brian Harring <ferringb@×××××.com> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] add UUID for comparison of installed package to binary package? | ||
| Date: | Fri, 12 Feb 2010 21:38:45 | ||
| Message-Id: | 20100212213806.GH20770@hrair | ||
| In Reply to: | [gentoo-portage-dev] add UUID for comparison of installed package to binary package? by Zac Medico |
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| 1 | On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 12:54:21PM -0800, Zac Medico wrote: |
| 2 | > Hi, |
| 3 | > |
| 4 | > I'm thinking about adding a UUID file in /var/db/pkg, for comparing |
| 5 | > installed packages to binary packages. We already have BINPKGMD5, |
| 6 | > but the problem with that is that the MD5 of a binary package |
| 7 | > changes when it's updated for package moves. A UUID would be |
| 8 | > assigned at build time and remain constant thereafter. We can use |
| 9 | > python's uuid.uuid4() function to generate a random UUID. Any |
| 10 | > suggestions for alternative approaches? |
| 11 | |
| 12 | Purpose? |
| 13 | ~harring |
| Subject | Author |
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| Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] add UUID for comparison of installed package to binary package? | Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o> |