Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2003 21:25:05 +1200 From: Andrew Turner <zombie@i4free.co.nz> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: freebsd-binup@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Protocol & package independent draft Message-ID: <3EF575F1.6090108@i4free.co.nz> In-Reply-To: <20030622031848.GC89485@rot13.obsecurity.org> References: <3EF512DF.10602@i4free.co.nz> <20030622031848.GC89485@rot13.obsecurity.org>
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Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 02:22:23PM +1200, Andrew Turner wrote: > >>I have been writing a design for binup to become protocol an package >>independent. This document dosn't specify how to build the packages or >>how to install the packages. >> >>This is the first draft and I would like feedback. >> >>With this draft the client is responsible to select the packages on the >>server to fetch then install them on it's own. > > > IMO, what we need is working code, not more drafts that get > bikeshedded around for a bit but then never get implemented. > > Kris I've started writing some code in c to download the packages using libfetch. If there are any changes to the draft I will fix them in the code when I release it. Andrew
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