Portage persistence structures :: information about ports tree
 

Hi.

I'm reading portage docs and sources at /usr/lib/portage trying to
understand how portage persists information on 'available ports'.

So, I'm reading /usr/lib/portage/bin/emerge:

--- snip ---

portdb = trees["porttree"].dbapi

--- snip ---

Where 'trees' is a parameter to 'search's object construction.


But who really uses 'search class' is 'action_search' as we can see
below:

--- snip ---

def action_search(settings, trees, myopts, myfiles, spinner):
[...]
searchinstance = search(settings, trees,
spinner, "--searchdesc" in myopts,
"--quiet" not in myopts, "--usepkg" in myopts,
"--usepkgonly" in myopts)
[...]


--- snip ---

Later in 'emerge' file we have

--- snip ---
action_search(settings, trees[settings["ROOT"]],
--- snip ---

... and so on ...

I'm trying to track the calls, instantiations, etc to figure out how
portage persists ports info.

May someone give me some help on this ? How does portage do the
searchs ? Walk into the ports tree and build some structure or store
this info on some embedded database like berkeley db or sqlite ?

Thanks in advance.

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On Mon, 09 Jun 2008 17:36:14 -0300
João Macaíba <joao.macaiba@gmail.com> wrote:

> May someone give me some help on this ? How does portage do the
> searchs ? Walk into the ports tree and build some structure or store
> this info on some embedded database like berkeley db or sqlite ?

You're probably looking for the portdbapi class defined in
pym/portage.py (or pym/portage/dbapi/porttree.py in 2.2), in particular
the cp_all(), cpv_all(), cp_list() and aux_get() methods.

Marius
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João Macaíba wrote:
> May someone give me some help on this ? How does portage do the
> searchs ? Walk into the ports tree and build some structure or store
> this info on some embedded database like berkeley db or sqlite ?

If you want to use sqlite, you might find this useful:

http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_speed_up_portage_with_sqlite

Zac
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