Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2007 08:46:53 +0200 From: "[LoN]Kamikaze" <LoN_Kamikaze@gmx.de> To: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: +CONTENTS files Message-ID: <46889F5D.70801@gmx.de> In-Reply-To: <46887FD3.3080307@u.washington.edu> References: <46887FD3.3080307@u.washington.edu>
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Garrett Cooper wrote: > Pardon me for being naive, but wouldn't it be wiser for all of the data > in the +CONTENTS file to be aggregated into sections instead of having > line by line info? > > Example (net/samba_3.0.25a): > > @comment MD5:9e94560ac5e757d3bc5f922dcf3ab4fb > man/man1/log2pcap.1.gz > [~100 lines of repetitive data...] > @comment MD5:9f5fc8df2a1383a175e165ef2e0b10cc > man/man8/vfs_notify_fam.8.gz > > Could be aggregated into: > > @MD5 > 9e94560ac5e757d3bc5f922dcf3ab4fb man/man1/log2pcap.1.gz > c58f068d603a12d4af867c15cf77e636 man/man1/nmblookup.1.gz > [etc..] > @end MD5 > > or something similar to XML. > > This would reduce the filesize from n bytes to n - (9 + 4 -1) * > i_entries + 8. In larger package files this would reduce the amount of > data parsing by a long shot. Also, more powerful scripting languages > like Perl, Python, or smart parsers in C could make short work of this > data and just extract the MD5 elements for comparison. > > Also, by doing a little extra work when creating packages by > organizing all the sections together, I think that the file size could > be reduced by a large degree. > > Similar fields to @comment MD5 could be reduced I believe, but with > less benefit maybe, other than just the @unexec rmdir, etc lines. > > Either that, or the data should be organized into separate files I > think (increases number of files, but reduces overall processing time IMO). > > Thanks, > -Garrett In some cases the order of data stored is important and thus it cannot be seperated into section. Also, this layout allows for very simple parsing with usual UNIX tools (sed, cut, awk, perl, simply everything). Unlike XML, which is rather complex and thus does not belong into base, in my opinion.
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