Bug 518630 – New GLEP: Export PMS's cached VDB information (GLEP 64)

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Documentation

[Description Anthony Basile 2014-07-30 23:39:26 UTC]

I'm purposing a new GLEP on caching and exporting VDB information.  You can find the draft document at [1].  The initiative behind this was ratified by the council about a year ago [2].  Quoting from there:

Specification of /var/db/pkg contents
=====================================
The council discussed if the contents of the VDB should be specified
for interoperability between utilities, either in the PMS or possibly
in a separate document. Alternatively, package managers could provide
an abstraction layer to make some of the VDB's information available.
Finally, the following vote was taken:
"The council recommends that package managers export the NEEDED.ELF.2
information for interoperability between utilities."
- Accepted with 6 yes votes and 1 abstention.


Ref

[1] http://dev.gentoo.org/~blueness/GLEP-X.txt

[2] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/council/meeting-logs/20130910-summary.txt

[Comment 1 Chris Reffett (RETIRED) 2014-07-31 19:14:43 UTC]

All right. Assigning GLEP number as 64. Please email gentoo-dev@ for further discussion. I'll put it on the wiki, please either ping me or comment if you need any changes to it.

[Comment 2 Chris Reffett (RETIRED) 2014-11-08 22:22:50 UTC]

Oops, forgot to mark this as closed. Officially approved by the council in the 20141014 meeting.

[Comment 3 Ulrich Müller 2017-10-12 14:16:01 UTC]

*** Bug 458866 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***