Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2015 18:58:16 -0800
From: Orion <systmkor@gmail.com>
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Subject: [alpine-devel] Re: apk-tools - In need of a minimal spec
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On Wed, 4 Feb 2015 12:01:12 +0200
Timo Teras <timo.teras@iki.fi> wrote:

> Please remove the 'blob' term there.

'blob' terms has been removed.


> Also, there's a convention that capital letter fields are mandatory.
> Apk refuses to install the package if it recognize it. Lower case
> letters are optional support, and apk will give warning but accept to
> install it.

One line noting this but leaving out the warning until I know more
about what causes it etc.


> Maybe it'd be good as a table with columns:
>  - Field letter
>  - Description
>  - Field data format
>  - Allowed in installed-db / package-index

Table with these fields have been created. That said I haven't filled
the entire table out yet. I think the table should probably be a quick
reference and then if needed we have sections for each one going into
depth about that field.


> For APKBUILD we already have some other wiki pages, and it's not read
> by apk-tools so that can be left out.

Section removed.


> Over all, for the fileformats. It'd need also a section for index file
> and it's structure, the installed db file structure, and the package
> file structure.
> 
> I do have some notes on these. But it's not in any formatted way. I
> should take time to write it to the wiki page.

Maybe add some of your notes to the wiki page this weekend? :3 :P


> Thanks for the effort so far :)

Your welcome. Thanks for responding and not leaving me stranded to
reverse engineer everything. 

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keybase.io/systmkor


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