Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 14:18:01 +0200 From: Ladavac Marino <mladavac@metropolitan.at> To: 'Nick Hibma' <nick.hibma@jrc.it>, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: a two-level port system? (fwd) Message-ID: <55586E7391ACD211B9730000C110027617962F@r-lmh-wi-100.corpnet.at>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: Nick Hibma [SMTP:nick.hibma@jrc.it] > Sent: Monday, May 31, 1999 2:05 PM > To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG; freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: a two-level port system? (fwd) > > > Folks, how about _admitting_ finally that our ports collection is a > > database? We wouldn't need anything else than standard system tools > to > > maintain a ports.db file containing all that we want as DB records. > > Some thoughts: > > 1) Cvsupping the while database on every change or writing YAT (Yet > Another Tool) to do this properly > 2) Keeping things like Makefiles, descriptions, patches in a database > 3) making it a binary file instead of Human Readable ASCII > [ML] Well, I'll try to make a proof of concept tonight with a flatfile database not unlike the normal diff over several files. The result will be an ascii file which you could diff against and transfer only the diffs. Basically the format will be graphics graphics/gimp graphics/gimp/Makefile <blank><line 1 of makefile> <you get the idea> It will be trivial to expand it into directories in order to build ports, and compact directories into the file once the port has been added/updated. Advantages: 1) the file behaves like any other source file as far as CVS and CVSup is concerned: one stores and transfers diffs only 2) shar does it (and this will not be much different) 3) well, it is ascii :) /Marino > IMHO we'd end with something as silly as an OO database. > > Nick > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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