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From: Mikhail Teterin <mi@aldan.algebra.com>
Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/sysinstall install.c installUpgrade.c media.c package.c
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On  2 Apr, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> Mikhail Teterin <mi@aldan.algebra.com> writes:
>> There might already be something at
>> 
>> 	http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~ezk/research/fist/
>> and
>> 	http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~ezk/research/software/
> 
> Eh?  We already have all the filesystem support we need, we just need
> scripts to generate filesystem images containing the packages.

Instead of changing the package format, I was more thinking in line of a
tarfs, where you could do something like

	mount_tar -oro -oz /tmp/package.tar.gz /mnt

:-)

	-mi


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