Re: data.debian.org -- requirements for packages

2010-10-01 Thread Peter Samuelson
> On Fri, 01 Oct 2010, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > > Package: huge-dataset > > Depends: huge-dataset-base-2010-09-01, huge-dataset-patch-2010-09-10, > > huge-dataset-patch-2010-09-20, huge-dataset-patch-2010-09-30 > > > And then have huge-dataset set up the data set and patch it as new > > versions

Re: data.debian.org -- requirements for packages

2010-10-01 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
On Fri, 01 Oct 2010, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > | Sounds like you want a dpkg mode where you can pre-depend on a prior > | version of your own package, and _not_ delete files that are shipped by > | the base package that are not shipped by the 'delta deb'. Because of > | this pre-dependency, you wo

Re: data.debian.org -- requirements for packages

2010-10-01 Thread Simon McVittie
On Fri, 01 Oct 2010 at 09:32:02 +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > Something like: > > Package: huge-dataset > Depends: huge-dataset-base-2010-09-01, huge-dataset-patch-2010-09-10, > huge-dataset-patch-2010-09-20, huge-dataset-patch-2010-09-30 > > And then have huge-dataset set up the data set and

Re: data.debian.org -- requirements for packages

2010-10-01 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Peter Samuelson | [Yaroslav Halchenko] | > for HUGE DBs with frequent updates -- may be we could come up with data | > package chains -- i.e. with some base package version + sequence of | > dependent packages with binary deltas which get applied upon | > installation? e.g. | > | > data-blob-

Re: data.debian.org -- requirements for packages

2010-09-30 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Yaroslav Halchenko] > for HUGE DBs with frequent updates -- may be we could come up with data > package chains -- i.e. with some base package version + sequence of > dependent packages with binary deltas which get applied upon > installation? e.g. > > data-blob-1.0.0 > data-blob-1.0.0+1 > data-b

Re: data.debian.org -- requirements for packages

2010-09-30 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
> Also, I do wonder what the highest update frequency should be for data > packages. > Some databases for instance release weekly or even daily snapshots, but > updating a 10g debian package each week probably is not what we want. I guess my follow-up is the result of being smoke deprived today: c

Re: data.debian.org -- requirements for packages

2010-09-30 Thread Michael Hanke
On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 06:01:38PM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > On Wed, 29 Sep 2010 at 13:09:03 -0400, Michael Hanke wrote: > > * compression of content > > > > Any policy to enforce compressed file formats regarding the stuff > > installed > > by a data package? > > I think this ought to

Re: data.debian.org -- requirements for packages

2010-09-30 Thread Simon McVittie
On Wed, 29 Sep 2010 at 13:09:03 -0400, Michael Hanke wrote: > * compression of content > > Any policy to enforce compressed file formats regarding the stuff installed > by a data package? I think this ought to be case-by-case: some users of large data blobs (e.g. Quake 3/Openarena PK3 files)

Re: data.debian.org -- requirements for packages

2010-09-30 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Wed, 29 Sep 2010, Michael Hanke wrote: > I know that data.debian.org is not yet there, but I wonder whether there > is already a concept, i.e. a set of requirements that packages have to > fulfil to qualify for this archive? Also, I do wonder what the highest update frequency should be for dat

Re: data.debian.org -- requirements for packages

2010-09-30 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 01:09:03PM -0400, Michael Hanke wrote: > * compression of content > Any policy to enforce compressed file formats regarding the stuff installed > by a data package? Also, how would we deal with data that is to be accessed using a query engine such as an SQL datab

data.debian.org -- requirements for packages

2010-09-29 Thread Michael Hanke
Hi, I know that data.debian.org is not yet there, but I wonder whether there is already a concept, i.e. a set of requirements that packages have to fulfil to qualify for this archive? I assume packages would have to be architecture 'all', but other than that I wonder whether there will be any sig