[repo-coord] Re: repo agnostic package resolvers (was: Latest apt broken?)

[Jeff Pitman]

On Thursday 20 January 2005 08:43, Jeff Pitman wrote:
> On Thursday 20 January 2005 01:52, seth vidal wrote:
> > And yet it makes the pkg mgmt a nightmare b/c now, instead of being
> > able to key on file name I have to go find the packages the provide
> > that file (or worse yet, if wildcards are involved) then figure out
> > the arch for those involved and match.
>
> How do you do "Requires: /usr/sbin/alternatives" ?

Perhaps a dict based on input from filelists.xml.gz would be 
appropriate.  The dict would use the filename as the key and the value 
is the <package name="XXX">. Not sure how long it'd take on large repos 
to create a dict, possibly pickling it for caching purposes, etc.

Wildcard lookup would be another enjoyable coding experiment.  Wonder if 
there are any recipes that might be applicable. (If the cache was 
sqlite based, could use "like" or whatever...)

Anyway, I don't think it'll be too tough to code.  Since, mainly it's to 
display what packages are gonna get nuked. Problem is what's the speed 
factor?

See what happens...

-- 
-jeff