From owner-freebsd-binup Sun Oct 14 18:17:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-binup@freebsd.org Received: from mao.stokely.org (mao.stokely.org [65.84.64.228]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEC4937B40B; Sun, 14 Oct 2001 18:17:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mao.stokely.org (Postfix, from userid 2074) id 170D54B65D; Sun, 14 Oct 2001 18:17:09 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2001 18:17:09 -0700 From: Murray Stokely To: Josef Karthauser Cc: Murray Stokely , Eric Melville , binup@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: design issues Message-ID: <20011014181709.E2654@windriver.com> References: <20011014170515.B39749@FreeBSD.org> <20011014180507.D2654@windriver.com> <20011015020834.Y31066@tao.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="TakKZr9L6Hm6aLOc" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011015020834.Y31066@tao.org.uk>; from joe@tao.org.uk on Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 02:08:34AM +0100 X-GPG-Key-ID: 1024D/0E451F7D X-GPG-Key-Fingerprint: E2CA 411D DD44 53FD BB4B 3CB5 B4D7 10A2 0E45 1F7D Sender: owner-freebsd-binup@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --TakKZr9L6Hm6aLOc Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 02:08:34AM +0100, Josef Karthauser wrote: > Our current package framework is inadequate. It needs to be > reconstructed with a middle layer API to separate the underlying > database representation from the package tools. Unfortuately the > open-packages people don't appear to have realised this. :(. Do you mean something as simple as just moving some of the functionality of pkg_add into a libpkg so that other applications can use it? That's a weekend project at most and something I've definitely wanted for a long time. sysinstall would be an obvious consumer of this library, since sysinstall uses cpio to deal with packages and I've seen packages that pkg_add likes but sysinstall doesn't like. - Murray --TakKZr9L6Hm6aLOc Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (SunOS) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7yjkUtNcQog5FH30RAu2oAJ44DXg4zHR1+lfDRjbfiqiNzATSGwCeOjS2 QQ51BazYrfD9Sf57KgC/UfI= =4bLm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --TakKZr9L6Hm6aLOc-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-binup" in the body of the message