On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 05:50:21PM +0200, Enrico Zini wrote: > 4. When the library is initialised, check if there are newer files in > the sources directory, and if yes, rebuild the index. If it's > running as root, rebuild the central index, otherwise rebuild the > user index.
Now let's see how to choose what index to read, and what index to
update.
* For vocabulary and tag indexes
1. If there are user sources, then completely ignore the system indexes
- If the user index is newer than the newest of the user and system
sources, read it
- Else, read all the sources to regenerate the user index
2. Else, try the system index first
- If the system index is newer than the newest of the system
sources, then use it. If the user index exists, delete it.
- Else, check if we are root
- If we are root, read all the sources to regenerate the system
index
- Else, read all the sources to regenerate the user index
* For the support index pkgidx
There cannot be user sources for pkgidx, as it solely depends on
libapt-pkg's internal indexes. Therefore:
- If the system index is newer than the newest of the system
sources, then use it. If the user index exists, delete it.
- Else, check if we are root
- If we are root, scan the APT index to generate the system pkgidx.
- Else, scan the APT index to regenerate the user index.
...and now, let's implement this as well.
Ciao,
Enrico
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