From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 20149 invoked by alias); 16 Nov 2001 01:02:13 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 20127 invoked from network); 16 Nov 2001 01:02:12 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO itdomain003.itdomain.net.au) (203.63.157.208) by sourceware.cygnus.com with SMTP; 16 Nov 2001 01:02:12 -0000 Received: from brendan ([210.8.130.87]) by itdomain003.itdomain.net.au with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.3779); Fri, 16 Nov 2001 12:02:11 +1100 Message-ID: <004201c16e3b$5afc1400$578208d2@itdomain.net.au> From: "Robert Collins" To: "Stipe Tolj" Cc: "Corinna Vinschen" 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> <3BF450A3.2FEFAB14@wapme-systems.de> Subject: Re: no more package moratorium? Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2001 08:26:00 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2462.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2462.0000 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 16 Nov 2001 01:02:11.0609 (UTC) FILETIME=[529A5890:01C16E3A] X-SW-Source: 2001-11/txt/msg00373.txt.bz2 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stipe Tolj" > It would be easy to allow package maintainers (via HTTP basic > authentification and underlying PHP application) to update the > relevant information in the database. I'd very much doubt that Chris would be happy with http basic authentication given it's security issues, unless wrapped in SSL. And doing that takes CPU which I understand sources.redhat.com to be a little short on right now. > > 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. Really? The replication and merge capability in oracle 8i or above, and in MSSQL 7 would do it, but even they don't address the trust issues in having a truely federated system. However, this is not my decision. I just think that a database with web interface for maintaining this data is doing it the wrong way around. A web interface to view the data yes, and Chris's package list allows that trivially. A web interface to change, don't make sense to me. However, if you can convince the other current maintainers, and are willing to completely rewrite this when setup handles embedded meta data - such as rpm has - then I won't object. Rob -- 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/