On Wednesday 02 May 2001 02:27, Brian May wrote: > >>>>> "Matt" == Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Matt> I had an idea (and a working script) to extract changelogs > Matt> from source packages and insert them into a SQL database. > Matt> My original intention was to allow apt-listchanges to > Matt> display changelogs for packages before downloading them, but > Matt> such a database would also allow for queries like this. It > Matt> would also allow the CGI changelog viewer to work again. > > Matt> If the daily lintian runs start up again, this script could > Matt> easily be run when a source package is unpacked, to keep the > Matt> database up-to-date as new packages come into the archive. > > I have previously debated if I should mention this or not, and have in > the past wondered if there would be any benefit in replacing the > Packages file with some sort of distributed SQL database (could LDAP > be used???).
LDAP could be used. However we would need to devise some new schema for it, and we would need to get >= type operations working properly (last time I tried I could not get it going in OpenLDAP). Using LDAP would solve the scalability issue, synchronising multiple LDAP servers is very easy! -- http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/ Bonnie++ hard drive benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/postal/ Postal SMTP/POP benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/projects.html Projects I am working on http://www.coker.com.au/~russell/ My home page
