From owner-freebsd-binup Wed Oct 23 12:54:23 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-binup@freebsd.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 885) id B8F8437B401; Wed, 23 Oct 2002 12:54:22 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 12:54:22 -0700 From: Eric Melville To: GERARDO ENRIQUE PAREDES MANCIA Cc: freebsd-binup@FreeBSD.org, murray@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: current state of the binup project Message-ID: <20021023125422.A86417@FreeBSD.org> References: <200210190255.10557.g.paredes@unitec.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <200210190255.10557.g.paredes@unitec.edu>; from g.paredes@unitec.edu on Sat, Oct 19, 2002 at 02:55:10AM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-binup@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I would like to know which is the current state of this project, if its still > being worked or is abandoned. It's something I want to do. Unfortunately I'm stuck with very little time between paid work and school work, especially needing to create a reliable multicast protocol from scratch for a group project this quarter. > I also have some doubts about what the components in the current codebase do, > for example, the current incarnation of updated only holds metadata for the > releases, profiles, files and such; my question is if updated is gonna > continue just being a meta-data server and the client will handle the actual > downloading and installing of the binary distributions using libfetch in the > same style that pkg_install(1) and friends do? If so, how are you going to > handle the binary packages? are they going to be the same chunks that the > distribution cd's hold?. The code currently appearing in the projects directory in cvs is not worth very much. It exists to transfer files and other such information related to services BSDi was interested in providing. With BSDi out of the picture, all we care about is transferring files, and there's better ways to do that. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-binup" in the body of the message