From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 19 16:00:56 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 700AE16A4CE; Mon, 19 Jan 2004 16:00:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from kientzle.com (h-66-166-149-50.SNVACAID.covad.net [66.166.149.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FB1A43D45; Mon, 19 Jan 2004 16:00:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kientzle@acm.org) Received: from acm.org ([66.166.149.54]) by kientzle.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i0K00rkX002206; Mon, 19 Jan 2004 16:00:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kientzle@acm.org) Message-ID: <400C6FB5.9020703@acm.org> Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 16:00:53 -0800 From: Tim Kientzle User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20031006 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, "'freebsd-current@freebsd.org'" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: libpkg X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: kientzle@acm.org List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 00:00:56 -0000 I've started to build a libpkg as part of my ongoing project to overhaul the existing FreeBSD pkg_* tools [1]. Although my design docs are very rough still, I'd appreciate any input on whether this library would be useful to people who are considering building other sorts of packaging tools: http://people.freebsd.org/~kientzle/libarchive/libpkg.3.txt Tim Kientzle [1] More information about the project and the work done so far are available at: http://people.freebsd.org/~kientzle/libarchive/