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On 4/11/2022 15:20, Sid Spry wrote: |
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> On Mon, Apr 11, 2022, at 3:02 PM, Joshua Kinard wrote: |
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>> I think json is the best format for storing the data on-disk. It's intended |
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>> to be a data serialization format to convert data from a non-specific memory |
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>> format to a storable on-disk format and back again, so this is a perfect use |
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>> for it. |
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> Can we avoid adding another format? I find json very hard to edit by hand, it's |
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> good at storing lots of data in a quasi-textual format, but is strict enough to be |
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> obnoxious to work with. |
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I sympathize with you here on this, json is not a format geared for editing |
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by hand... :: looks disapprovingly at net-misc/kea :: |
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> Can the files not be concatenated? Doing so is similar to the tar suggestion, |
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> but would keep everything very portage-like. Have the contents assigned to |
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> variables. I am betting someone tried this at the start but settled on the current |
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> scheme. Does anyone know why? (This would have to be done in bash syntax |
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> I assume.) |
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> Alternatively, I think the tar suggestion is quite elegant. There's streaming |
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> decompressors you can use from python. It adds an extra step to modify but |
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> that could be handled transparently by a dev mode. In dev mode, leave the files |
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> after extraction and do not re-extract, for release mode replace the archive with |
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> what is on disk. |
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Out of curiosity, what are you doing that requires manual editing of the VDB |
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data? That data isn't, in normal scenarios, supposed to be arbitrarily |
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edited. Throwing out a good optimization for what sounds like a niche |
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corner-case doesn't seem like a great plan. Given json's malleable format, |
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and especially Matt's example script, converting from json data to another |
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format that's more conducive to manual editing in rare circumstances, then |
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converting back, is not impossible. |
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Joshua Kinard |
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Gentoo/MIPS |
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