Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 09:02:08 -0600 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com> Cc: Patrick Bihan-Faou <patrick@mindstep.com>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New packaging tool (was Re: Applying patches with out a compiler) Message-ID: <391D6E70.904FB463@softweyr.com> References: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1000512123717.44824A-100000@fledge.watson.org> <E12qJVg-0005ow-00@xi.css.qmw.ac.uk> <107101bfbc60$aabeb350$040aa8c0@local.mindstep.com> <391C9CBC.4E0ED8E5@softweyr.com> <200005130137.TAA09188@nomad.yogotech.com>
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Nate Williams wrote:
>
> > > I am currently working on a new version of pkg_*, which will bring a few
> > > features that I feel are missing.
> >
> > In my opinion, if we're going to replace the packaging system completely,
> > a good starting point might be to turn the PAX code, or something of
> > that nature, into a library and build on top of that.
>
> Not PAX. ZIP, since PAX and tar both require you to read to the end of
> the file to determine the contents of the file, and don't allow you to
> do random access I/O and pull out individual files.
>
> There are numerous advantages to using something like ZIP, including
> removing the requirement to 'unpack' the archive in a staging area,
> since we could now unpack it directly in it's installation location.
>
> ZIP also allows signatures, and we have lots of free software that we
> can leverage to implement the tools with it.
Sounds great. So who wants to dive into libzip?
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