[oe] [Familiar] Re: [announce] new tagged version of ipkg

[Richard Purdie]

On Fri, 2007-01-12 at 21:31 +0200, Paul Sokolovsky wrote:
> > * Converted from storing metadata in flat files to storing it in an sqlite db
> 
> > Of course, a bit of work might be needed to actually make that a true
> > statement. ;-)
> 
>   I really have an itch for that myself, I just wonder if less steep
> start can be made here, like to add separate simple hash-based index for
> Packages file, so it was quick to look up package by name. Of course,
> if that could help depends on ipkg code, and I didn't yet have chance
> to peek at...

I've wondered about this too. I'd like to see it but its a lot of work
and it will turn into an ipkg fork as the original ipkg was supposed to
stay true to Debian.

Regards,

Richard