Date: Fri, 9 May 2008 19:35:07 +0200 From: Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Adding .db support to pkg_tools Message-ID: <20080509173507.GB35511@keltia.freenix.fr> In-Reply-To: <op.uavxx8ip2n4ijf@duckjen.nextgentel.no> References: <op.uavxx8ip2n4ijf@duckjen.nextgentel.no>
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According to Anders Nore: > with the base system (/usr/src/include/db.h). BerkeleyDB is not you're > typical relational db, and can only save key/value pairs. The way I'm > thinking of storing information to the .db is to name the keys as the > directory names in /var/db/pkg. And save the +* files in the directories to > the value element in the db, separated with a special character or similar. Please make it compatible with the existing infrastructure in /var/db/pkg maintained by portinstall/portupgrade. If it can be improved as a side-effect, that would be even better. -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr Darwin sidhe.keltia.net Version 9.2.0: Tue Feb 5 16:13:22 PST 2008; i386
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