Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2001 18:17:09 -0700 From: Murray Stokely <murray@FreeBSD.org> To: Josef Karthauser <joe@tao.org.uk> Cc: Murray Stokely <murray@FreeBSD.org>, Eric Melville <eric@FreeBSD.org>, binup@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: design issues Message-ID: <20011014181709.E2654@windriver.com> In-Reply-To: <20011015020834.Y31066@tao.org.uk>; from joe@tao.org.uk on Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 02:08:34AM %2B0100 References: <20011014170515.B39749@FreeBSD.org> <20011014180507.D2654@windriver.com> <20011015020834.Y31066@tao.org.uk>
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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
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