Date: Mon, 25 Aug 1997 10:35:54 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Warner Losh <imp@rover.village.org> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, Alexander Indenbaum <baum@actcom.co.il>, A Joseph Koshy <koshy@india.hp.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Checking the integrity of system files Message-ID: <23947.872530554@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 25 Aug 1997 11:16:44 MDT." <E0x32ku-0001EG-00@rover.village.org>
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> Is there something funamentally wrong with the pkg format that is > already in use for the packages? It requires as much temporary storage as the unpacked package's size and it's slow besides (requiring also a rather sick hack to tar just to extract the TOC without having to run all the way through the archive). Jordan
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