Subject: Re: pkg vs. rpm
To: After 5 PM please slip brain through slot in door. <greywolf@starwolf.com>
From: Hubert Feyrer <feyrer@rfhs8012.fh-regensburg.de>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 01/05/1999 02:19:52
On Mon, 4 Jan 1999, After 5 PM please slip brain through slot in door. wrote:
> Perhaps overkill, but why not have the pkg system update a central
> database at install/deinstall? I actually build such a database
> on a nightly basis. Not db'd, but still.
That's exactly what I have in mind: add on pkg_add, delete on pkg_delete,
and make query-able. I'm thinking of just adding a db for a simple
file->pkg mapping for the beginning.
- Hubert
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Hubert Feyrer <hubert.feyrer@rz.uni-regensburg.de>