From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Jul 8 9: 1:44 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05A0837B405 for ; Mon, 8 Jul 2002 09:01:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mx02.egartech.com (aloha.egartech.com [62.118.81.133]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 40DB343E3B for ; Mon, 8 Jul 2002 09:01:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from temik@egartech.com) Received: (qmail 73365 invoked by uid 85); 8 Jul 2002 16:03:52 -0000 Received: from temik@egartech.com by mx02.egartech.com with qmail-scanner-1.03 (. Clean. Processed in 0.411249 secs); 08 Jul 2002 16:03:52 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO turtle.egar.egartech.com) (192.168.8.4) by 0 with SMTP; 8 Jul 2002 16:03:52 -0000 Subject: RE: Package system flaws? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="koi8-r" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 20:01:35 +0400 content-class: urn:content-classes:message X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.5762.3 Message-ID: <5235EF9BAE6B7F4CB3735789EEF73B29074170@turtle.egar.egartech.com> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: Package system flaws? Thread-Index: AcImliUo6eE46+MKTqmvlAIMDJ+sVQAANCrg From: "Artem Tepponen" To: "Dan Moschuk" Cc: "Doug Barton" , "Garrett Wollman" , , Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > From: Dan Moschuk [mailto:dan@FreeBSD.ORG] > Sent: Monday, July 08, 2002 7:43 PM > | The only problem is how to handle metadata piece that > | have to have at least two properties: > | 1. It should be available without whole thing being decompressed. > | 2. It should be available asap in case of slow link. >=20 > I think the meta data should be available uncompressed=20 > prepended to the .tar.bz2 archive. Zipping would also work, > however as someone earlier pointed out zip compression > is sub-optimal compared to bzip (or gzip for that matter). > Considering the sheer amount (and size) of some of our > packages I don't think that this is a minor issue. I guess that two files solution has some nice properties like not having to update the whole shebang only when dependencies are changed. It just needs a secure way to ensure that two files are paired (MD5?). But it loses convenience and beauty of single file scheme. Artem Tepponen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message