[Yum-devel] [RFC] dbversion 10

seth vidal skvidal at linux.duke.edu
Wed Apr 11 05:36:34 UTC 2007


On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 08:19 +0300, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Apr 2007, James Bowes wrote:

> It's not just about breaking yum API but also about any other repodata 
> sqlite users. The only one at the moment is probably apt-rpm and even 
> there it's not included in any released version yet so from that POV now's 
> a good time to make changes (even bigger ones if needed), later it gets a 
> bit uglier. Although I will need to figure out a nice way to support more 
> than one db format sooner or later by looks of things.

I'm assuming, perhaps incorrectly, that smart might be able to make use
of this, too. But nevertheless, you're right - needing to be able to
cope with distinguishing b/t db version X or db version X+1 is something
that it will be useful to do.

-sv





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