Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 20:01:35 +0400 From: "Artem Tepponen" <temik@egartech.com> To: "Dan Moschuk" <dan@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: "Doug Barton" <DougB@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Garrett Wollman" <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>, <mark@thuvia.demon.co.uk>, <arch@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Package system flaws? Message-ID: <5235EF9BAE6B7F4CB3735789EEF73B29074170@turtle.egar.egartech.com>
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> From: Dan Moschuk [mailto:dan@FreeBSD.ORG] > Sent: Monday, July 08, 2002 7:43 PM > | The only problem is how to handle metadata piece that > | have to have at least two properties: > | 1. It should be available without whole thing being decompressed. > | 2. It should be available asap in case of slow link. >=20 > I think the meta data should be available uncompressed=20 > prepended to the .tar.bz2 archive. Zipping would also work, > however as someone earlier pointed out zip compression > is sub-optimal compared to bzip (or gzip for that matter). > Considering the sheer amount (and size) of some of our > packages I don't think that this is a minor issue. I guess that two files solution has some nice properties like not having to update the whole shebang only when dependencies are changed. It just needs a secure way to ensure that two files are paired (MD5?). But it loses convenience and beauty of single file scheme. Artem Tepponen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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