[RFC][WIP][PATCH 0/5] adding extended package data

[Allan McRae]

On 7/2/22 04:30, Andrew Gregory wrote:
> ALPM is currently parsing several fields that are not particularly relevant to
> managing package installation (e.g. pkgbase, pkgtype, makedepends,
> checkdepends).  pkgtype in particular is not even exposed in any way through
> the API, it has to be included in the parser with a "not actually used"
> comment.  This patchset adds an extended data field to packages that can be
> used by packagers or package-building infrastructure to store arbitrary package
> data in a way that doesn't require altering alpm for every field and allows the
> data to actually be retrieved via alpm (though not as easily as first-class
> fields).
> 
> Andrew Gregory (5):
>    query: only strip leading local/ for db packages
>    query: allow querying extra info for package files
>    add data field for arbitrary package data
>    query: print extended data when extra info is requested
>    makepkg: store package type in extended data

This looks a good idea to me.  Nothing stood out on a quick skim of the 
patches.

I assume patches 1 and 2 could be committed now?