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 1MFBUH-0005A4-V7 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 12 Jun 2009 18:28:26 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B839AE04C1; Fri, 12 Jun 2009 18:28:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from petteriraty.eu (petteriraty.eu [78.47.27.97]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 830EAE04C1 for ; Fri, 12 Jun 2009 18:28:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [82.130.46.217] (qiz1.kyla.fi [82.130.46.217]) by petteriraty.eu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 97C9E7B90055; Fri, 12 Jun 2009 18:28:23 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4A329E2F.1090303@gentoo.org> Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 21:27:59 +0300 From: =?UTF-8?B?UGV0dGVyaSBSw6R0eQ==?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; fi; rv:1.8.1.21) Gecko/20090324 Thunderbird/2.0.0.21 Mnenhy/0.7.6.666 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 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org CC: PackageKit users and developers list Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Inviting you to project "PackageMap" References: <4A3206DA.3090907@hartwork.org> In-Reply-To: <4A3206DA.3090907@hartwork.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 OpenPGP: url=http://users.tkk.fi/~praty/public.asc Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enigF5C70EDC788D03FE7A2C4302" X-Archives-Salt: 6b7202b5-f63a-4b18-9733-fd6aabe6ca89 X-Archives-Hash: c3bc7b429039972fdd849c4f6a0e0921 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigF5C70EDC788D03FE7A2C4302 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sebastian Pipping wrote: >=20 > To count into the same bucket we use global identifiers for the > "products" that fall out of a package. Gentoo package "dev-util/git" > can produce product "cpe://a:git:git", Debian's "git-core" can, too. > That string before is a CPE URI [1], a concept close to package naming > in Java. This "intermediate language" allows us to relate package name= s > from distro X with those of distro Y and answer various questions from > that data. >=20 > To do such mapping we need code (or a "service") that does the mapping > for us and base of collected data that the service can operate on. Bot= h > of these is project "PackageMap" >=20 Instead of manually populating a database wouldn't it make more sense to parse this information from package metadata.xml? Regards, Petteri --------------enigF5C70EDC788D03FE7A2C4302 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkoynjMACgkQcxLzpIGCsLRDywCfZqa+sDUAtc6jjSsVbN/jnLgl oEsAnjhz6XJmNbT8mdlDtUt30Khmv2w2 =2umK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigF5C70EDC788D03FE7A2C4302--