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xref

The xref database by DarwinBuild is roughly the equivalent to a package manager database on other systems.
This page is intended to describe what is in the xref database, and how to use it.

xref.db file format

The file xref.db is located in the .build directory of your DarwinBuild working directory (the one that contains BuildRoot, among other things). It is a mysql3 database file, which makes it convenient to open end edit using mysql3 (which comes with Leopard):

sqlite3 .build/xref.db

You can now use sqlite SQL commands. However, you should limit yourself to read operations.

darwinxref

darwinxref is the command line client for the xref database that comes with DarwinBuild. It abstracts from the actual sqlite3 commands. 

For example, to get a list of all the files contained in your BuildRoot and which projects they belong to, do:

darwinxref exportFiles > darwinxref.exportFiles.txt

This is handy to keep around.

darwinxref binary_sites

This command shows the URL(s) from which binary roots are tried to be downloaded. For example:

darwinxref binary_sites
http://src.macosforge.org/Roots/9A581/

Since each individual project can specify additional binary_sites, you can also pass the name of a certain project to it:

darwinxref binary_sites xnu
http://src.macosforge.org/Roots/9A581/
http://some.more.specific.to.xnu

darwinxref source_sites

This command shows the URL(s) from which source packages are tried to be downloaded. For example:

darwinxref source_sites
http://src.macosforge.org/Projects/

Since each individual project can specify additional binary_sites, you can also pass the name of a certain project to it as in the binary_sites example.

darwinxref patchfiles

Shows patchfiles that will be applied to a project, if any. For Example:

sh-3.2# darwinxref patchfiles xnu

(more text to be written)

darwinxref dependencies

Shows build-time or run-time dependencies of a given project, For example:

sh-3.2# darwinxref dependencies -build boot

shows a (recursive) list of build-time dependencies of the boot project.

(more text to be written)

darwinxref plug-ins

darwinxref functionality can be extended by plug-ins. See descrip.txt for the currently available ones.

Contents of xref.db

The xref database contains the following tables, with the following fields:
  • files 
    • build
    • project
    • path
  • groups 
    • build
    • name
    • member
  • mach_o_objects 
    • serial
    • magic
    • type
    • cputype
    • cpusubtype
    • flags
    • build
    • project
    • path
  • mach_o_symbols
    • mach_o_object
    • type
    • value
    • name
  • properties
    • build 
    • project
    • property
    • key
    • value
  • unresolved_dependencies
    • build
    • project
    • type
    • dependency
To be continued
Would it make sense to base a package manager on xref.db, darwinup and some package format like xar?

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