From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1M8r7i-00018F-3l for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 26 May 2009 07:30:58 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 921EDE0390; Tue, 26 May 2009 07:30:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from brigitte.telenet-ops.be (brigitte.telenet-ops.be [195.130.137.66]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D711E0390 for ; Tue, 26 May 2009 07:30:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.64] ([78.21.28.120]) by brigitte.telenet-ops.be with bizsmtp id w7Wu1b00J2bVBmN0G7WuzJ; Tue, 26 May 2009 09:30:55 +0200 Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] better support for binary packages From: Kobboi To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <1243245294.7098.63.camel@hspc31.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de> References: <1243245294.7098.63.camel@hspc31.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 09:30:48 +0200 Message-Id: <1243323048.4545.2.camel@localhost> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.26.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 3fc649dd-81ee-460c-b524-fe0e46c32c67 X-Archives-Hash: 9cabbc6857d8e3577f25759bf5e86fbe On Mon, 2009-05-25 at 11:54 +0200, Philipp Riegger wrote: > The current situation: > > Binary packages are (usually) stored > in /usr/portage/packages/$category/$package-$version.tbz2. The package > consists of the "real binary package" and the metadata (combined using > xpak or whatever). No, the metadata is stored in a separate Packages file. Regards, Kobboi