On Tue, 2006-04-25 at 19:32 +0200, Stef Bon wrote: > Hello, > In short, by installing the acl-attr packages (there is a hint about that > too), you should be able to add any information (metadata) to an file and > directory. For example the packagename, buildtime, packageversion etcetera. > It's possible to do a search on this attr (find_by_attr). > > About this topic I've found a website: > > "http://book.itzero.com/read/others/0602/OReilly.Linux.Server.Hacks.Volume. > Two.Dec.2005_html/0596100825/morelnxsvrhks-CHP-5-SECT-10.html" > > > The only problem is how to set these attributes when installing a package > and all of the files that belong to this package. > > I'm thinking of wrappers for all the commands that create files: > install,cp,mv.... > Default this wrapper should do nothing extra, but when there are for example > some environmentvariables set, it will create these extra attributes for > every file moved/created/installed/copied. > > What do you think? > > IMHO the idea of an extra database containing all the information about > packages installed is not good: the filesystem your system is on itself is > a database and should contain this information. The only question is howto > find it. > > > Stef Bon
this sounds like an extreemly cool idea to me! -- H CUH Rainer Peter Feller H -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
