Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 22:12:49 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Mike Meyer <mwm-keyword-freebsdhackers2.e313df@mired.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Ivan Voras <ivoras@fer.hr>, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: New FreeBSD package system (a.k.a. Daemon Package System (dps)) Message-ID: <20070511021249.GA78729@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <17987.52970.398402.580727@bhuda.mired.org> References: <200705102105.27271.blackdragon@highveldmail.co.za> <f20c8u$htp$1@sea.gmane.org> <17987.52037.112351.872442@bhuda.mired.org> <20070511015156.GA77895@xor.obsecurity.org> <17987.52970.398402.580727@bhuda.mired.org>
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On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 10:03:22PM -0400, Mike Meyer wrote: > In <20070511015156.GA77895@xor.obsecurity.org>, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> typed: > > On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 09:47:49PM -0400, Mike Meyer wrote: > > > In <f20c8u$htp$1@sea.gmane.org>, Ivan Voras <ivoras@fer.hr> 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
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