From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@blueyonder.co.uk>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] VDB access
Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2008 18:16:46 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080206181646.08b778cb@snowcone> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1202304268.28296.61.camel@sapc154.salomon.at>
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On Wed, 06 Feb 2008 14:24:28 +0100
Michael Haubenwallner <haubi@gentoo.org> wrote:
> +1 for general metadata query interface.
>
> In prefix (specifically on AIX) we have some nasty requirement to
> merge object files inside archive files, because shared-objects
> should be members of a static libraries, fex libstdc++.so.6 is an
> archive member of libstdc++.a.
>
> This (still experimental) inside-library-merge currently is done using
> some hackery in profile.bashrc, but this requires access to
> vdb/CONTENTS in pre_pkg_postrm() to clean up after unmerge.
CONTENTS isn't metadata in the conventional sense... If someone's
redesigning VDB, they're very unlikely to keep CONTENTS in the same
format. So you'd need a second, different interface for that...
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Ciaran McCreesh
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Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-05 1:05 [gentoo-dev] VDB access Ciaran McCreesh
2008-02-05 7:43 ` [gentoo-dev] " Christian Faulhammer
2008-02-05 19:02 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2008-02-06 6:43 ` Petteri Räty
2008-02-06 17:09 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2008-02-05 21:21 ` [gentoo-dev] " Zac Medico
2008-02-06 6:30 ` Vlastimil Babka
2008-02-06 7:49 ` Zac Medico
2008-02-06 13:24 ` Michael Haubenwallner
2008-02-06 18:16 ` Ciaran McCreesh [this message]
2008-02-06 17:14 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2008-02-07 7:41 ` Zac Medico
2008-02-08 9:54 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2008-04-10 8:07 ` Rémi Cardona
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