On 08/31/14 11:02, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
On Sun, 31 Aug 2014 10:56:21 -0400
"Anthony G. Basile" <[email protected]> wrote:
I'd give you a link to git.gentoo.org/proj/elfix as a concrete
example, but the site is still down.
Are you emulating all the workarounds for reading previously-written
invalid data in there? Because if not, you're reading what you want VDB
to contain, not what it actually does...
Remember, VDB's format isn't specified anywhere, so if you claim you
can read it, you must be able to read whatever it contains, and you
can't claim that (for example) rogue 'stat' entries in CONTENTS are a
bug.
I'm reading portage's code. I'm not looking at paludis. The council is
proposing a standardization of this information so that we don't have
the sitatuation where we're "reading what you want VDB to contain, not
what it actually does"
I do not understand why you oppose the standardization of VDB?
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