Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 11:19:13 +0400 From: "Artem Tepponen" <temik@egartech.com> To: <rsi@panix.com> Cc: "Doug Barton" <DougB@FreeBSD.org>, "Garrett Wollman" <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>, <mark@thuvia.demon.co.uk>, <arch@FreeBSD.org> Subject: RE: Package system flaws? Message-ID: <5235EF9BAE6B7F4CB3735789EEF73B296E614A@turtle.egar.egartech.com>
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> From: Rajappa Iyer [mailto:rsi@panix.com] > Sent: Monday, July 08, 2002 10:25 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 > It seems to me that the solution is staring us right in the face. > Currently, the ports mechanism already separates data and metadata. > IMHO, the best solution is to extend the ports mechanism so that it > can be told to fetch and install binaries instead of building it > locally. IOW, perhaps one additional file per port and some > additional rules in bsd.port.mk. >=20 > This seems to me to be the cleanest solution. Unfortunately this doesn't solve third party packages problem well. Note: ports do have freebsd maintainers but packages may not (well, there should be possibility for standalone thirdparty packages). Artem Tepponen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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