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Re: RFC: [PATCH] Simplify installed.db format
- From: Igor Peshansky <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 11:52:12 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: RFC: [PATCH] Simplify installed.db format
- References: <Pine.GSO.4.63.0601212355410.18707@access1.cims.nyu.edu> <44199353.2090806@ukf.net>
- Reply-to: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
On Thu, 16 Mar 2006, Max Bowsher wrote:
> Igor Peshansky wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > The current format for installed.db is (except the first line)
> >
> > PKG-NAME TARBALL-NAME 0
> >
> > which setup tries to parse as
> >
> > package-name filename filesize src-filename srcsize
> >
> > (with src-filename and srcsize never used, and the filesize field never
> > accessed). I propose to remove the unused fields, with the intention of
> > later reusing the (always 0) for something else.
> >
> > The attached patch fixes the parsing of installed.db package lines.
> > Comments welcome.
> > Igor
> > ==============================================================================
> > ChangeLog:
> > 2006-01-22 Igor Peshansky <pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu>
> >
> > * cygpackage.h (filesize): Remove unused field.
> > (cygpackage::createInstance): Ditto.
> > * cygpackage.cc (cygpackage::createInstance): Ditto.
> > * package_db.cc (packagedb::packagedb): Remove unused variables.
> > Simplify parsing of installed.db.
>
> Does this constitute dropping support for "version 1" installed.db files?
>
> If so, we should remove the rest of the code attempting to support
> version 1 too.
I think support for this has been dropped a while ago, and what we're
seeing are spurious remnants. FWICS, I did not remove the parsing and
processing of any fields that were actually used...
Igor
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