Re: LSB Package API

2008-06-28 Thread Denis Washington
On Thu, 2008-06-26 at 14:55 -0400, Jeff Johnson wrote: On Jun 25, 2008, at 11:49 AM, Denis Washington wrote: I hope what is in the data structures is sufficient and well-defined enough. And, what I increasingly tempt to believe, that we don't talk past each other. ;) I'm trying to

Re: LSB Package API

2008-06-25 Thread Jeff Johnson
On Jun 24, 2008, at 1:38 PM, Denis Washington wrote: Sound like a plan? My primary goals here are two-fold: 1) avoiding disasters if bogus headers start to be added to an rpmdb. 2) exposing rpmdbAdd() (and rpmdbRemove()) methods for use by LSB/ISV/whatever applications that wish to

Re: LSB Package API

2008-06-22 Thread Jeff Johnson
On Jun 21, 2008, at 12:48 PM, Denis Washington wrote: My current interest in your code is disaster prevention, not otherwise. I welcome any motive if it improves code quality, so thanks anyway. ;) NP. My life is hell when rpmdb's get hosed up. Doesn't matter whether its a kernel

Re: LSB Package API

2008-06-22 Thread Michel Briand
I think you are looking for a solution to a problem that doesn't exist. For the corner cases of where this does apply (proprietary software) this is not enough of a use case to justify all the work required. I don't think this is a corner case at all. For one thing, propietary applications

Re: LSB Package API

2008-06-21 Thread devzero2000
On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 7:17 PM, Denis Washington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2008-06-21 at 13:01 -0400, Jeff Johnson wrote: On Jun 21, 2008, at 12:48 PM, Denis Washington wrote: On Sat, 2008-06-21 at 12:27 -0400, Jeff Johnson wrote: On Jun 21, 2008, at 12:05 PM, Denis Washington

Re: LSB Package API

2008-06-21 Thread devzero2000
On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 7:35 PM, devzero2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 7:17 PM, Denis Washington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2008-06-21 at 13:01 -0400, Jeff Johnson wrote: On Jun 21, 2008, at 12:48 PM, Denis Washington wrote: On Sat, 2008-06-21 at 12:27

Re: LSB Package API

2008-06-21 Thread Jeff Johnson
On Jun 21, 2008, at 1:52 PM, devzero2000 wrote: (aside) It is time for LSB RPM SPEC to move to RPM4 packaging format Indeed. That is the raison d'etre for [EMAIL PROTECTED]. I have not pursued because of zero (yes zero!) interest from vendor's or LSB. Not my problem. I will do a IETF

Re: LSB Package API

2008-06-21 Thread devzero2000
On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 8:19 PM, Jeff Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jun 21, 2008, at 1:52 PM, devzero2000 wrote: (aside) It is time for LSB RPM SPEC to move to RPM4 packaging format Indeed. That is the raison d'etre for [EMAIL PROTECTED]. I have not pursued because of zero (yes

Re: LSB Package API

2008-06-21 Thread devzero2000
On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 9:46 PM, Jeff Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jun 21, 2008, at 2:45 PM, devzero2000 wrote: Ok. I already know this and also agreed on the motivation. In the meantime could be useful to have more docu on the rpm4 packaging format, almost for the tags. There is

RE: LSB Package API

2008-06-21 Thread Wichmann, Mats D
LSB has chosen to leave upgrade UNSPECIFIED, and has also chose in the Berlin API to ignore the fact that both dpkg/rpm versions are a triple of Epoch/Version/Release. Pretending that a version string can be anything, opaquely handled, including E:V-R, or something else, misses the issue