[csw-maintainers] Catalog broken

Ben Walton bwalton at opencsw.org
Tue May 18 19:44:12 CEST 2010


Excerpts from Philip Brown's message of Tue May 18 13:42:03 -0400 2010:

> > I thought the error was to do with some packages either missing a
> > field or others having extra.  If the format changed, shouldn't all
> > package entries in the catalog have the same amount of fields?
> >
> 
> not neccessarily.

So tools need to be aware that a line with X fields is the old format
and (X + 1) is the new?  This is doable, but wouldn't it be nicer if
all the packages were updated to include the new info?

Thanks
-Ben

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