From owner-freebsd-security Sat May 13 8: 0:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from obie.softweyr.com (obie.softweyr.com [204.68.178.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DAC4737BB23 for ; Sat, 13 May 2000 08:00:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from softweyr.com (homer.softweyr.com [204.68.178.39]) by obie.softweyr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA03635; Sat, 13 May 2000 09:00:10 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Message-ID: <391D6E70.904FB463@softweyr.com> Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 09:02:08 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nate Williams Cc: Patrick Bihan-Faou , freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New packaging tool (was Re: Applying patches with out a compiler) References: <107101bfbc60$aabeb350$040aa8c0@local.mindstep.com> <391C9CBC.4E0ED8E5@softweyr.com> <200005130137.TAA09188@nomad.yogotech.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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? -- "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-security" in the body of the message