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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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