From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JMopL-00035R-VD for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 06 Feb 2008 18:16:56 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6413AE019D; Wed, 6 Feb 2008 18:16:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.ferdyx.org (170.Red-213-96-222.staticIP.rima-tde.net [213.96.222.170]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1AFE3E019D for ; Wed, 6 Feb 2008 18:16:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.ferdyx.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 171888D306 for ; Wed, 6 Feb 2008 19:27:19 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at ferdyx.org Received: from smtp.ferdyx.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (tungsteno.ferdyx.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id Ss3hcHxNN8iE for ; Wed, 6 Feb 2008 19:27:16 +0100 (CET) Received: from snowcone (unknown [213.121.151.206]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.ferdyx.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64FE08D305 for ; Wed, 6 Feb 2008 19:27:16 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2008 18:16:46 +0000 From: Ciaran McCreesh To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] VDB access Message-ID: <20080206181646.08b778cb@snowcone> In-Reply-To: <1202304268.28296.61.camel@sapc154.salomon.at> References: <20080205010546.38414ec3@snowcone> <47A8D35E.4030708@gentoo.org> <47A95408.40601@gentoo.org> <1202304268.28296.61.camel@sapc154.salomon.at> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.2.0 (GTK+ 2.12.5; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) 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 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Sig_/7LePBzFfq9I5gpV4HVpDC8R"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: d249ebba-d039-4a01-a3ac-9eed23ba7849 X-Archives-Hash: b9d254fc698a7798ba27275585ef3fde --Sig_/7LePBzFfq9I5gpV4HVpDC8R Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 06 Feb 2008 14:24:28 +0100 Michael Haubenwallner wrote: > +1 for general metadata query interface. >=20 > 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. >=20 > 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... --=20 Ciaran McCreesh --Sig_/7LePBzFfq9I5gpV4HVpDC8R Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHqfmQ96zL6DUtXhERAkdxAJ9UX00sqm8ijT6nDjg8HR9Zd43pBQCfcKYj 6L5cPgAsgn/cJ3r34shYxdM= =Z3bb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/7LePBzFfq9I5gpV4HVpDC8R-- -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list