From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Jul 9 15:41:13 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C82E37B400; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 15:41:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net (hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.22]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A31643E3B; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 15:41:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0275.cvx22-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.199.20] helo=mindspring.com) by hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 17S3fE-0005ha-00; Tue, 09 Jul 2002 18:40:57 -0400 Message-ID: <3D2B664B.64079A1F@mindspring.com> Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2002 15:40:11 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: Wes Peters , Doug Barton , Dan Moschuk , arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Package system flaws? References: <20020707152651.V679-100000@master.gorean.org> <3D2A191C.3103D0FB@softweyr.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Wes Peters writes: > > If you're sensible about the encoding, the metadata doesn't have to be > > at the beginning of the media. > > Yes, it does, to allow installation from non-rewindable streams. And to allow partial downloading of the package via HTTP GET range requests, in order to obtain the metadata for e.g. "KDE", without having to download the entire 18TB it would take up over a 28K modem line. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message