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

[Sebastian Pipping]

Petteri Räty wrote:
> 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?

Which information exactly?  Please elaborate on that.



Sebastian