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 1NWT0h-0008PX-Kp for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 11:09:35 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8E66DE069C; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 11:09:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f224.google.com (mail-ew0-f224.google.com [209.85.219.224]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31774E069C for ; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 11:09:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy24 with SMTP id 24so2448631ewy.26 for ; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 03:09:07 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=74Ka9kVyDXbngspxt60TfLVVXP2MRqaonYmj8PfaWGk=; b=KonnneBpvzBs4KqOM6UE6Jke7P3vNW+7nH6TVtpMBiOAD+i3fhpg3hvzU3WQrRueAH eYdSFi335knV+W8etmCFf0F/YNyqVIwlX1shxbbgxCkdJCNXuG8CpYas2e7CQrxfW+3Y VlP0+z6iaM8oRafbmczK46XSVKOKDPschOqaA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=IoVys8eEIOqYOD4JuwCJY0GWxg/GHIWIyYYZZmXbhYb6pLKR0g7iHLhLapw07KIJM2 OHsTfBaQrWwxcnY8ZW+md/Sya2MKpRhUSZFuoVbpUrdLVL/RWzg1EixOBdUbkiXtHz7c aCVqNmP04boxrdIk3OSspLLaqN2o4wigumgLI= 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 Received: by 10.216.91.20 with SMTP id g20mr1696358wef.94.1263726547571; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 03:09:07 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20100117114849.09ddb5b3@gentoo.org> References: <20091026015005.GA12250@hrair.hsd1.ca.comcast.net> <7c612fc61001111435s5caaf80dx4629d81447ab52e8@mail.gmail.com> <20100112101252.1d63a6a5@snowmobile> <20100112231223.GC6656@hrair> <20100117085914.4774f9fa@snowmobile> <20100117092411.GA800@eric.schwarzvogel.de> <82dd739f1001170146u40fa2698qd6089881aabfb523@mail.gmail.com> <20100117114849.09ddb5b3@gentoo.org> Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 11:09:07 +0000 Message-ID: <82dd739f1001170309m5dc6b20cm8379b23fc70e8d67@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: adding a modification timestamp to the installed pkgs database (vdb) From: Ciaran McCreesh To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 7197745d-1283-4754-9621-b1edd4822a9f X-Archives-Hash: e0bb43caacdd2a729b169c5b94e20502 2010/1/17 Christian Faulhammer : > Ciaran McCreesh : > =A0As 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). =A0So 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. --=20 Ciaran McCreesh