Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2002 16:12:07 -0700 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu> Cc: arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Package system flaws? Message-ID: <3D2A1C47.82E52933@softweyr.com> References: <20020706220511.GA88651@scoobysnax.jaded.net> <3D27A296.D58FB4B4@softweyr.com> <xzplm8nrgse.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <200207072204.g67M4V1F027052@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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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? ;^)
--
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