Eternal 'good file hashes' list

[Seth Vidal]

On Tue, 20 Oct 2009, Ralf Ertzinger wrote:

> Hi.
>
> On Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:18:03 +0300 (EEST), Panu Matilainen wrote:
>
>> To make any use of that data you'll obviously need the file names
>> too, so:
>> [pmatilai at localhost Packages]$ rpm -qap --qf "[%{filedigests} %{filenames}\n]" *.rpm |wc
>>  430716  804104 47467960
>
> That has to be databased somehow, probably compressed... hm.
> Might not turn out all that bad spacewise.
>
>
>> ...but rpm stores paths indexed by directory, storing flat paths as
>> returned by %{filenames} wastes tonnes of space. Also note that
>> directories and symlinks dont have associated hashes. And of course
>> there's a whole lot more metadata that you need to take into account
>> when verifying: user+group, permissions, symlink targets etc.
>
> So basically the RPM file content without the actual file contents,
> right?

You could, of course, just have koji keep the pkgs and then you could use 
the existing metadata to grab the header from the pkgs and access the 
information that way.

-sv