Re: Understanding contents.py

[Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>]

Hi,

On 07/08/2014 18:48, Abhishek Bhattacharjee wrote:
> I want to know how contents.py takes only the newest binaries for
> writing the contents.
> https://github.com/abhi11/dak/blob/master/daklib/contents.py#L50
> Here's  the link to that part.
> In sql_create_temp, what are we doing exactly ?
> All I see is a clause "desc version"

The DISTINCT clause[1] is the relevant bit. It takes only one entry for
each "package", the ORDER BY part decides which entry that is.

Ansgar

  [1]
<http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/sql-select.html#SQL-DISTINCT>