From owner-freebsd-security Sat May 13 23:46:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from dt051n0b.san.rr.com (dt051n0b.san.rr.com [204.210.32.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B320A37BD40 for ; Sat, 13 May 2000 23:46:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@gorean.org) Received: from gorean.org (doug@master [10.0.0.2]) by dt051n0b.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA29405; Sat, 13 May 2000 23:46:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@gorean.org) Message-ID: <391E4BCC.6EA3DB59@gorean.org> Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 23:46:36 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT-0508 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nate Williams Cc: Wes Peters , 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: > 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. I concur. I've always wondered why (info-)zip hasn't enjoyed more popularity in the unix world. I used it extensively back when I ran OS/2, and it has a lot of nice features. Doug -- "Live free or die" - State motto of my ancestral homeland, New Hampshire Do YOU Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message