From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@googlemail.com>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: adding a modification timestamp to the installed pkgs database (vdb)
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 11:09:07 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <82dd739f1001170309m5dc6b20cm8379b23fc70e8d67@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100117114849.09ddb5b3@gentoo.org>
2010/1/17 Christian Faulhammer <fauli@gentoo.org>:
> Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@googlemail.com>:
> As much as you love to have the new and shiny VDB2, it is far off.
> Prototyping and drafting implementations would be great to have some
> base where we can discuss on (in a civil manner). So having this
> timestamp would be a good way to prepare a sane migration path.
No, it wouldn't. Brian's proposal a) would be of no use whatsoever for
VDB2 migration, and b) would not be used by VDB2. Having a *decent*
cache validation mechanism is a good idea; having a half-baked one is
a waste of time.
--
Ciaran McCreesh
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-17 11:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-26 1:50 [gentoo-dev] adding a modification timestamp to the installed pkgs database (vdb) Brian Harring
2009-10-27 18:32 ` [gentoo-dev] " Zac Medico
2009-10-28 5:11 ` Brian Harring
2010-01-11 22:35 ` [gentoo-dev] " Denis Dupeyron
2010-01-12 10:12 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2010-01-12 23:12 ` Brian Harring
2010-01-17 8:59 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2010-01-17 9:24 ` Tobias Klausmann
2010-01-17 9:46 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2010-01-17 10:48 ` [gentoo-dev] " Christian Faulhammer
2010-01-17 11:09 ` Ciaran McCreesh [this message]
2010-01-18 15:42 ` Brian Harring
2010-01-18 16:37 ` Ciaran McCreesh
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