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On Tuesday 15 September 2009 15:04:23 Fabrice Delliaux wrote: |
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> On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:21:50 +0200 Frank Steinmetzger wrote: |
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> > Here it stores alotta info about the binary packages - for instance |
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> > with what useflags they were compiled. This info is not in the |
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> > archives, which only contain the files. |
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> No, informations about environment are included in tbz2 packages. |
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> You can read man xpak for explanations. |
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> IMHO, the /usr/portage/packages/Packages file is an index for the |
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> package manager to avoid wasting time to open, parse and close each |
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> tbz2 file. |
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And it's fetched by machines using a BINHOST, as obviously over HTTP it's not |
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practical to fetch the packages themselves to get the environment info. |
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Mike Williams |
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