Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Message-ID: <3BF450A3.2FEFAB14@wapme-systems.de> Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 00:32:51 +0100 From: Stipe Tolj Organization: Wapme Systems AG X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [de]C-CCK-MCD QXW0322b (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: de,en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Robert Collins CC: Corinna Vinschen Subject: Re: no more package moratorium? References: <007f01c16cde$5016de20$0200a8c0@lifelesswks> <20011114124323.C24614@cygbert.vinschen.de> <3BF44A45.9DA8A866@wapme-systems.de> <06bc01c16e2a$a7061500$0200a8c0@lifelesswks> <3BF44EFA.E5ABCA5B@wapme-systems.de> <06fc01c16e2d$7169d730$0200a8c0@lifelesswks> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > We've had that - setup.ini was the database, and updating was a PITA, > because it couldn't be easily distributed. Setup.hint allows the > metadata to be altered by the maintainer - without needing a central > repository. I agree, that's why I mentioned in the file conflict thread: The package maintaining system should provide _mechanisms_ to support the package maintainers. It would be easy to allow package maintainers (via HTTP basic authentification and underlying PHP application) to update the relevant information in the database. This is how my intension from the package maintaining module looks like. > Also, federating a database is _hard_. Federating package metadata by > associating it with the packages is trivial. It depends on the design of the database and the access mechanisms, IMO. Stipe tolj@wapme-systems.de ------------------------------------------------------------------- Wapme Systems AG Münsterstr. 248 40470 Düsseldorf Tel: +49-211-74845-0 Fax: +49-211-74845-299 E-Mail: info@wapme-systems.de Internet: http://www.wapme-systems.de ------------------------------------------------------------------- wapme.net - wherever you are -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/