From owner-freebsd-security Sat May 13 8: 2:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from ns.yogotech.com (ns.yogotech.com [206.127.123.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE4CA37B944 for ; Sat, 13 May 2000 08:02:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nate@yogotech.com) Received: from nomad.yogotech.com (nomad.yogotech.com [206.127.123.131]) by ns.yogotech.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA26430; Sat, 13 May 2000 09:02:41 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate@nomad.yogotech.com) Received: (from nate@localhost) by nomad.yogotech.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA04832; Sat, 13 May 2000 09:02:40 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate) Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 09:02:40 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200005131502.JAA04832@nomad.yogotech.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Michael Robinson Cc: nate@yogotech.com, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New packaging tool (was Re: Applying patches with out a compiler) In-Reply-To: <200005131111.TAA13455@netrinsics.com> References: <200005130137.TAA09188@nomad.yogotech.com> <200005131111.TAA13455@netrinsics.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams) Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > >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. > > Or, heck, why not JAR format, seeing as it's a well-defined standard, does > everything necessary, and has multiple interoperable implementations. FWIW, it's the same format. :) :) Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message