Re: Inital Deb Filter

[Joe Shaw <joeshaw novell com>]

Hi,

On Sun, 2006-04-23 at 16:23 -0400, Kevin Kubasik wrote:
> On 4/23/06, D Bera <dbera web gmail com> wrote:
> > 5) (If available, maybe ?) Changelog - ebuild probably doesnt have
> > this, ignore it
> Debian stores it remotely, its possible to get, but it would require
> that we open a new connection to the internet every time we index, or
> that we extract(install) the entire archive...

Yeah, an internet connection is definitely not ok. :)

> There is technically the new .autopackage format, but its pretty rare
> atm and basically derives all of its information from a rpm or deb
> package. Should the format take off, we can deal with it then, but it
> looks to be collapsing under its own weight.

In a former life I spent a lot of time pining for a new packaging
format.  Unless a large distribution picks it up, it's dead in the
water.

Joe