Re: Inital Deb Filter

["Kevin Kubasik" <kevin kubasik net>]

Ok, I'll probably get around to that Sunday afternoon, looks easy enough.

-Kevin K

On 4/21/06, D Bera <dbera web gmail com> wrote:
> On Friday 21 April 2006 18:10, Pat Double wrote:
> > On Friday 21 April 2006 17:02, D Bera wrote:
> > > Pat, I changed FilterEbuild to derive from FilterPackage. Nothing should
> > > be broken since I didnt change any functionality and I tested it on 2
> > > simple ebuilds. But you might want to go through it once to make sure I
> > > didnt drop anything in copy/paste. I dont know the ebuild format good
> > > enough.
> > >
> > > - dBera
> >
> > Will do. I don't know if the Deb and RPM filters put in installation info
> > into the properties, but if so I also have a patch to the ebuild filter to
> > do so. It would be nice to standarize on those properties like the size of
> > the installed files, when it was installed, etc.
>
> For RPM, I try to extract the information that is useful for searching or
> displaying. I didnt feel filesizes would be useful to extract so I didnt. Its
> upto you for the ebuild filter. But since filesizes can be only be extracted
> from "installed"-ebuilds and not ebuilds lying in the file-system, and I am
> not sure how can it be used while displaying in beagle-search, I am not too
> keen on adding that information to FilterPackage. Just add them specific to
> FilterEbuild.
>
> - dBera
>
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