[pacman-dev] package PKGINFO format vs DB format

[Aaron Griffin]

On 9/19/07, Xavier <shiningxc at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 01:25:40PM -0500, Aaron Griffin wrote:
> > On 9/19/07, Miklos Vajna <vmiklos at frugalware.org> wrote:
> > > On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 12:49:12AM -0500, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > [
> > > >     foo = bar
> > > >     baz = blah
> > > > ]
> > >
> > > then
> > >
> > > %FOO%
> > > bar
> > > baz
> > >
> > > would become
> > >
> > > foo = bar baz
> > >
> > > ?
> > >
> > > won't it result in *very* long lines for the filelists?
> >
> > Well actually, the current format just repeats. So it'd be:
> >
> > foo = bar
> > foo = baz
> >
> > In a way it makes sense, because, this is a DB entry really... you
> > wouldn't be resetting the variable. But as a programmer it *does* read
> > a little funny.
> >
>
> I think it'll look rather odd, especially for the big file lists.
>
> files = usr/share/locale/fr/
> files = usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/
> files = usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/libalpm.mo
> files = usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/pacman.mo
> files = usr/share/locale/hu/
> files = usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/
> files = usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/libalpm.mo
> files = usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/pacman.mo
> files = usr/share/locale/it/
> files = usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/
> files = usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/libalpm.mo
> files = usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/pacman.mo
> files = usr/share/locale/pl_PL/
> files = usr/share/locale/pl_PL/LC_MESSAGES/
> files = usr/share/locale/pl_PL/LC_MESSAGES/libalpm.mo
> files = usr/share/locale/pl_PL/LC_MESSAGES/pacman.mo
> files = usr/share/locale/pt_BR/
> files = usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/
> files = usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/libalpm.mo
> files = usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/pacman.mo
> files = usr/share/locale/ru_RU/
> files = usr/share/locale/ru_RU/LC_MESSAGES/
> files = usr/share/locale/ru_RU/LC_MESSAGES/libalpm.mo
> files = usr/share/locale/ru_RU/LC_MESSAGES/pacman.mo
>
> But maybe it isn't that bad after all.
> The second inconvenient is the additional space used.
>
> On the other hand, it'll be much easier to work with using grep,
> like Romashka already mentioned.
>
> With :
> files = usr/share/locale/ru_RU/LC_MESSAGES/libalpm.mo
> files = usr/share/locale/ru_RU/LC_MESSAGES/pacman.mo
> ...
> backup = etc/pacman.conf  c176542c3e4c13044e57ba65e47f3e69
> backup = etc/makepkg.conf 318712d2c8ee9196f395b60ceb13fe35
> ...
>
> Then I could just grep backup /var/lib/pacman/local/*/files
> to see all the backup entries.
>
> I wanted to do that because of the little bug in pacman 3.1 that only filled
> the first md5sum, to check which packages are affected in my db :)

Yeah, and even more so, if we then move everything to one file instead
of three (speculating here, not saying it's a good idea), grep becomes
infinitely more useful.

grep files /var/lib/pacman/local/foo-1.0-1