Hi Milo, It does not answer directly your question but we (actually Wesley is working on that) are currently working on a accurate and precise versioning mechanism for OSCAR packages.
It does not answer directly the problem of binary packages (RPM or Debs) but this part should be fixed with the next OSCAR package API proposed by Erich and implemented by Jean. In summary, that should be addressed in the next releases of OSCAR. :-) My 2 cents, On Friday 15 June 2007 12:12, Milo wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm using oscar 5.0, but I'm told the repo-update > and relevent subroutine scripts haven't changed in > over a year, so this should still be valid in 5.1. > > I did some poking around within the script, and from > what I can tell the script only determines whether or > not the package versions are identical or not. I am > definitely not fluent in perl (yet), but there doesn't > seem to be any distinction between a newer or older > package version. If I'm wrong and missed this "lesser > than/greater than" logic somewhere in the routines, my > mistake :/ > > The reason this particular topic is of interest to me > is efficiency. When I first updated my local fedora > repo using the script, I used the --rmdup flag to > remove old versions of packages. If I now want to > periodicaly check online repo's for updates and such, > I'd like to avoid re-downloading the old versions of > packages I already downloaded and deleted the previous > times. > > I understand if might be a hefty task to modify the > algorithm to be able to do what I ask without a > standard system of package nomenclature, but perhaps > an alternative might be worth exploring. I'm assuming > it wouldn't be too difficult to have the script log > which package names and version it deleted when the > --rmdup option was invoked. Then during future repo > updates, it would be a simple process of comparing > this already-deleted-packages list to the > to-be-downloaded list and not downloading the matches. > > Thoughts? > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express > Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take > control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. > http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ > _______________________________________________ > Oscar-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-devel -- Geoff ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Oscar-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-devel
