[packagekit] [gentoo-dev] Inviting you to project "PackageMap"

[Petteri Räty]

Sebastian Pipping wrote:
> 
> To count into the same bucket we use global identifiers for the
> "products" that fall out of a package.  Gentoo package "dev-util/git"
> can produce product "cpe://a:git:git", Debian's "git-core" can, too.
> That string before is a CPE URI [1], a concept close to package naming
> in Java.  This "intermediate language" allows us to relate package names
> from distro X with those of distro Y and answer various questions from
> that data.
> 
> To do such mapping we need code (or a "service") that does the mapping
> for us and base of collected data that the service can operate on.  Both
> of these is project "PackageMap"
> 

Instead of manually populating a database wouldn't it make more sense to
parse this information from package metadata.xml?

Regards,
Petteri



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