From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 11 02:12:50 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E336A16A406 for ; Fri, 11 May 2007 02:12:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE46413C45E for ; Fri, 11 May 2007 02:12:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by elvis.mu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DDFA1A3C19; Thu, 10 May 2007 19:13:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 18C88513BC; Thu, 10 May 2007 22:12:50 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 22:12:49 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway To: Mike Meyer Message-ID: <20070511021249.GA78729@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <200705102105.27271.blackdragon@highveldmail.co.za> <17987.52037.112351.872442@bhuda.mired.org> <20070511015156.GA77895@xor.obsecurity.org> <17987.52970.398402.580727@bhuda.mired.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <17987.52970.398402.580727@bhuda.mired.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Ivan Voras , Kris Kennaway Subject: Re: New FreeBSD package system (a.k.a. Daemon Package System (dps)) X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 02:12:51 -0000 On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 10:03:22PM -0400, Mike Meyer wrote: > In <20070511015156.GA77895@xor.obsecurity.org>, Kris Kennaway typed: > > On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 09:47:49PM -0400, Mike Meyer wrote: > > > In , Ivan Voras typed: > > > > I cannot currently actively participate in implementing proposed things, > > > > but I can give advice on sqlite, database and xml schemas if anyone > > > > wants to... > > > One of the things that would be nice for a replacement to do would be > > > to correctly install i386 packages on amd64 platforms (and similar > > > things). > > This has nothing to do with a new packaging system and can be done > > today if someone cares enough to work on it. > > Well, yeah - *anything* can be done if someone cares enough to work on > it - it's all just SMOP. You could definitely put enough smarts into > the package installer do this without actually changing the packaging > system. But if we're gonna change the packaging system anyway, why not > consider adding information that the package building software already > has so that the package installer software doesn't have to try and > figure it out? Sure, we could pile on some more features onto a 6 year old design document that never got out of the design phase, or someone could just go and make the relatively minor changes to support i386 packages on amd64 now. I guess it's always more fun to build dream castles though :) > > Not gonna happen as a default, but you can change it on your systems > > if you like. > > Not very reliably. Best I can offer ;) Kris