Adding .db support to pkg_tools
Ollivier Robert
roberto at keltia.freenix.fr
Fri May 9 17:35:10 UTC 2008
According to Anders Nore:
> with the base system (/usr/src/include/db.h). BerkeleyDB is not you're
> typical relational db, and can only save key/value pairs. The way I'm
> thinking of storing information to the .db is to name the keys as the
> directory names in /var/db/pkg. And save the +* files in the directories to
> the value element in the db, separated with a special character or similar.
Please make it compatible with the existing infrastructure in
/var/db/pkg maintained by portinstall/portupgrade. If it can be improved
as a side-effect, that would be even better.
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