Re: How To Build A Perl Package Database

2013-01-04 Thread David Cantrell
On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 08:57:48PM +0100, Leon Timmermans wrote: > On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 11:59 PM, Michael G Schwern wrote: > > Storage is a problem. The only reliable "database" Perl ships with is DBM, > > an > > on disk hash, so we can't get too fancy. It might take several DBM files, > >

Re: How To Build A Perl Package Database

2013-01-04 Thread Michael G. Schwern
On 1/4/13 4:41 AM, David Cantrell wrote: > On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 08:57:48PM +0100, Leon Timmermans wrote: >> On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 11:59 PM, Michael G Schwern >> wrote: >>> Storage is a problem. The only reliable "database" Perl ships with is DBM, >>> an >>> on disk hash, so we can't get to

Re: How To Build A Perl Package Database

2013-01-04 Thread Adam Kennedy
I'll say it a second time... Packlist 2.0 Take MYMETA, add an extra key with the list that will be installed, intall it in the usual place as we do now. Package manager scans the filesystem for the packlist files. Might seem slow, but on SSDs scanning the filesystem like that is super super fas

Re: How To Build A Perl Package Database

2013-01-04 Thread Philippe Bruhat (BooK)
On Sat, Jan 05, 2013 at 10:33:04AM +1100, Adam Kennedy wrote: > I'll say it a second time... > > Packlist 2.0 > > Take MYMETA, add an extra key with the list that will be installed, intall > it in the usual place as we do now. > > Package manager scans the filesystem for the packlist files. >

Re: How To Build A Perl Package Database

2013-01-04 Thread Leon Timmermans
On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 12:33 AM, Adam Kennedy wrote: > I'll say it a second time... > > Packlist 2.0 > > Take MYMETA, add an extra key with the list that will be installed, intall > it in the usual place as we do now. > > Package manager scans the filesystem for the packlist files. > > Might seem