Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 10:18:19 +0200 From: des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?utf-8?Q?Sm=C3=B8rgrav?=) To: Ivan Voras <ivoras@fer.hr> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New FreeBSD package system (a.k.a. Daemon Package System (dps)) Message-ID: <864pmj4vuc.fsf@dwp.des.no> In-Reply-To: <f20c8u$htp$1@sea.gmane.org> (Ivan Voras's message of "Fri\, 11 May 2007 02\:10\:05 %2B0200") References: <200705102105.27271.blackdragon@highveldmail.co.za> <f20c8u$htp$1@sea.gmane.org>
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Ivan Voras <ivoras@fer.hr> writes: > - A quick test confirms that the current bsdtar will happily ignore any > extra data at the end of a tgz/tbz archive, so package metadata can be > embedded there, thus conserving existing infrastructure and being fast > to parse. I suggest encoding this metadata in a sane and easy to parse > XML structure. This has been discussed a million times before. The metadata needs to be at the *start* of the package file, otherwise networked installs (such as pkg_add -r) of large packages will require huge amounts of memory and / or temporary disk storage. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no
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