Re: [gentoo-dev] adding a modification timestamp to the installed pkgs database (vdb)

2010-01-17 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
2010/1/12 Brian Harring ferri...@gmail.com: There's no discussion because Brian refuses to address any comments on the proposal and just says we should do it anyway, and if you want it done properly instead, do it yourself. This is a bit of bullshit, per the norm.  There is plenty of

Re: [gentoo-dev] adding a modification timestamp to the installed pkgs database (vdb)

2010-01-17 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
2010/1/17 Tobias Klausmann klaus...@gentoo.org: No, we'd not do it that way. If we're ditching VDB, the only sane way to do it is to ditch it with an rm -fr when creating the new layout. Keeping two sets of data around is going to lead to breakage no matter how well we do things. Please also

Re: [gentoo-dev] adding a modification timestamp to the installed pkgs database (vdb)

2010-01-12 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Mon, 11 Jan 2010 15:35:51 -0700 Denis Dupeyron calc...@gentoo.org wrote: I'm a bit surprised by the low amount of discussions this topic has generated. There's no discussion because Brian refuses to address any comments on the proposal and just says we should do it anyway, and if you want it

Re: [gentoo-dev] adding a modification timestamp to the installed pkgs database (vdb)

2010-01-11 Thread Denis Dupeyron
Brian, On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 6:50 PM, Brian Harring ferri...@gmail.com wrote: The proposal is pretty simple; if code modifies the vdb in any fashion, it needs to update the mtime on a file named '.modification_time' in the root of the vdb. For example- 1) ${PACKAGE_MANAGER} fires ups,

[gentoo-dev] adding a modification timestamp to the installed pkgs database (vdb)

2009-10-25 Thread Brian Harring
First of all, feel free to forward this to anyone who is responsible for code pkged in the tree that access the vdb (/var/db/pkg) in some fashion. The proposal is pretty simple; if code modifies the vdb in any fashion, it needs to update the mtime on a file named '.modification_time' in the