From owner-freebsd-binup Tue Oct 16 10:34:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-binup@freebsd.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 885) id 92A1A37B408; Tue, 16 Oct 2001 10:34:34 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 10:34:34 -0700 From: Eric Melville To: Murray Stokely Cc: Josef Karthauser , binup@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: design issues Message-ID: <20011016103434.D4211@FreeBSD.org> References: <20011014170515.B39749@FreeBSD.org> <20011014180507.D2654@windriver.com> <20011015020834.Y31066@tao.org.uk> <20011014181709.E2654@windriver.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011014181709.E2654@windriver.com>; from murray@FreeBSD.org on Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 06:17:09PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-binup@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Do you mean something as simple as just moving some of the > functionality of pkg_add into a libpkg so that other applications can > use it? That's a weekend project at most and something I've > definitely wanted for a long time. sysinstall would be an obvious > consumer of this library, since sysinstall uses cpio to deal with > packages and I've seen packages that pkg_add likes but sysinstall > doesn't like. I tend to forget that sysinstall installs packages because I never use it, so disregard the prior comment about not seeing a gain from a libpkg. I'd still like more details about extending the package framework, however. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-binup" in the body of the message