[csw-maintainers] checkpkg: Detecting file conflicts (wrt the recent ev.h conflict)

[Ben Walton]

Excerpts from Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski's message of Sun Apr 11 19:19:22 -0400 2010:

> If the file had the same format, I could use the same parser.

Good point.

> I think that's OK if the file had dummy strings for uninteresting
> fields.  The important fields are:
> 
> - full path
> - file type
> - pkgname

I'm not sure if the db is carrying file type currently as I haven't
looked at it.  Can someone with familiarity comment on this?

> I like the idea.  I'll try to sketch something along those lines in
> the following week.

Cool!

Thanks
-Ben
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