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On 05/07/2015 11:43 AM, Zac Medico wrote: |
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> It certainly be nicer if the data from vdb_metadata.pickle had the |
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> packages indexed by ${CATEGORY}/${PN}, so that the sequential search |
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> would not be necessary. We should do that later if we decide to modify |
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> the vdb_metadata.pickle format in a backward-incompatible way. |
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d |
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Actually, we can add as many additional indexes as we want to the |
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pickle, and older portage would still be able the read the existing |
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structure if we keep it compatible. It's not terribly important to |
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maintain this sort of backward compatibility though. The worst case is |
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that the old version of portage has to re-read /var/db/pkg and generate |
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a new pickle. |
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Thanks, |
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Zac |
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