From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Jul 8 16: 8: 6 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C3E137B400 for ; Mon, 8 Jul 2002 16:08:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from softweyr.com (softweyr.com [65.88.244.127]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD3ED43E42 for ; Mon, 8 Jul 2002 16:08:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from nextgig-3.customer.nethere.net ([209.132.102.163] helo=softweyr.com) by softweyr.com with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 17Rhbn-0000nQ-00; Mon, 08 Jul 2002 17:07:55 -0600 Message-ID: <3D2A1C47.82E52933@softweyr.com> Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2002 16:12:07 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Garrett Wollman Cc: arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Package system flaws? References: <20020706220511.GA88651@scoobysnax.jaded.net> <3D27A296.D58FB4B4@softweyr.com> <200207072204.g67M4V1F027052@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Garrett Wollman wrote: > > In article <3D289529.95C1EC8A@softweyr.com> Wes wrote: > > >spersed. Zip format makes a lot of sense and is available in library > >format, but I could easily tolerate tar or cpio, as well as a variety > >of compression formats. The metadata should not be compressed for > >speed of package processing. > > `pax' format provides for a convenient extension-header mechanism that > would make this relatively easy to accomplish without inventing a new > archive format. One of these days I'm going to tear pax apart, make it pretty (and hopefully a bit faster), and give it back to the world as the gift it has needed for years. Turn most of it into a library in the process, too, so the code can be shared with tools like we're discussing. Unless I can talk YOU into doing it instead, Garrett? ;^) -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message