[pacman-dev] package PKGINFO format vs DB format

Roman Kyrylych roman.kyrylych at gmail.com
Wed Sep 19 12:34:14 EDT 2007


2007/9/19, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com>:
> > Which files exactly are we talking about?
> > What about "files" (no pun intended ;) in the local db?
>
> Lemme see if I recall correctly. The second format is obviously our
> current DB format. The first is the .PKGINFO file in the package
> tarballs themselves.
>
> I, also, like the first format better.
>
> Here's on thing that wasn't brought up above - list parsing:
>
> [
>     list = one
>     list = two
>     list = three
> ]
> vs
> [
>     %LIST%
>     one
>     two
>     three
> ]
>

Sure we do understand that there's also list parsing.
And still the first format is better :P

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Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)


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