[packagekit] Storing meta-information in files

[Ken VanDine]

Not sure how useful I feel it is, however shouldn't be hard to
implement.  How about using a sqlite db instead of just files?  I am
not a big fan of parsing files.

--Ken

On 9/7/07, Richard Hughes <hughsient at gmail.com> wrote:
> I want to be able to provide the OSX feature:
>
> Installed by:  Richard Hughes
> Installed date: 07/09/2007
>
> when you click the package name details. If we have no data (most of
> the system installed stuff) then we just get nothing. We can't get
> this from the backends, and so I'm proposing to store that sort of
> meta-information in
> /var/db/PackageKit/$package_id/{installed_by,when_installed}.
>
> So questions:
> * Is this sane? Is it even useful?
> * How do I store dates and names in a per-system localised way? epoch?
> * Is there anything else we should be storing?
>
> Richard
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Ken VanDine
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