Danek Duvall wrote:
On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 05:35:20PM -0500, Shawn Walker wrote:
Yes. Whenever we publish a manifest, the first line that the server
always writes to a file is a comment. It is automatically done as
part of publication.
That seems like an implementation detail that we might not want to rely on
in quite so subtle a way. Perhaps we already are doing so in some other
place, though?
Not that I know of.
However, remember that this is a short-term fix. Because of time and
other constraints, pkgrecv currently uses actual publishing operations
to add the manifest and its files to the repository.
That won't work long-term, especially once package-signing is put into
place.
My long-term fix is to add a special manifest operation that uploads the
manifest as is, and then adds the content to the repository and
"republishes it" instead of the "sort-of-a-hack" republication process
I'm using now for pkgrecv.
Once that's done, there won't be a need for the comment parsing I'm
doing now as I can guarantee that the manifest will be exactly as it was
received.
Cheers,
--
Shawn Walker
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