[Mageia-dev] maintainers database

nicolas vigier boklm at mars-attacks.org
Tue Dec 21 10:40:29 CET 2010


On Tue, 21 Dec 2010, andre999 wrote:

>
> We could have a structure something like this :
>
> Primary key : name of package
>
> Other fields, 1:1 relation :
> - package rpm category (+ subcategory, if any)

What is the category ?

> - repository
> - etc
>
> Other fields, 1:N relation :
> - Packager nickname + packager status (primary maintainer, trainee or 
> whatever) + real name + email
> (The last 2 items could be in a separate table keyed by nickname.)

Why duplicate infos from ldap database ? And why would we need that in
maintainers db ?

>
> - Package dependancies (names of other packages)

Why would we need that in maintainers db ?

> - Package provides (names of other packages)

Why would we need that in maintainers db ?



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