On May 9, 2008, at 5:43 AM, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 01:52:46PM +0200, Anders Nore wrote:
I'm working on adding .db support to the pkg_tools( i.e. pkg_add,
pkg_info,
etc. ) as part of SoC 2008. The database api used is BerkeleyDB
that comes
with the base system (/usr/src/include/db.h). BerkeleyDB is not
you're
typical relational db, and can only save key/value pairs. The way I'm
thinking of storing information to the .db is to name the keys as the
directory names in /var/db/pkg. And save the +* files in the
directories to
the value element in the db, separated with a special character or
similar.
As one of the persons hacking on pkg_install in pkgsrc/NetBSD, I would
*strongly* advisy you against storing the files only in a bdb file.
The change of major and complete corruption with bdb185 is high,
consider pulling the plug in the middle of a long update.
+1. BDB is quite easy to corrupt...
-Garrett
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