# HG changeset patch # User Kristian H?gsberg # Date 1193369469 14400 # Node ID e5479fd779af66b1bd92b413110d402d95d189db # Parent 3e42af5305ac880f42d2663286b6ce639ccdb98b More ideas for TODO. diff -r 3e42af5305ac -r e5479fd779af TODO --- a/TODO Thu Oct 25 13:21:26 2007 -0400 +++ b/TODO Thu Oct 25 23:31:09 2007 -0400 @@ -53,3 +53,18 @@ do { ... } while (((e++)->name & RAZOR_ENTRY_LAST) == 0); idiom for iteration of directories. + +- version the sections in the file, put the element size in the header + so we can add stuff to elements in a backwards compatible way. + +- overlay package sets? mount a read-only /usr over nfs or from the + virt-host and have a local package set overlaid over the read-only + one. shouldn't need new features in the core package set data + structure, but should be just conventions on top. we have the base + package set from the r/o system, the overlay set from the local + system and we can have an effective package set which is the merge + of everything from the overlay into the base set. the effective set + is easy to compute and we could do it on the fly or cache it. or + maybe the effective set is the on-disk representation and the + overlay can be computed when needed, we just keep a link back to the + base.