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From: Mark Valentine <mark@thuvia.demon.co.uk>
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In-Reply-To: Wes Peters's message of Jul  8,  3:41pm
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To: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>
Subject: Re: Package system flaws?
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> From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>
> Date: Mon 8 Jul, 2002
> Subject: Re: Package system flaws?

> Mark Valentine wrote:
> > Example 1: simple package, not sub-packaged.
> > 
> >     $ ls /var/spool/pkg/foo-x.y
> >     base.bz2        package.xml
> 
> Ick.  Why not have the XML include the base.bz2 file in whatever encoding
> (including direct binary) we deem appropriate?

That requires special tools to extract base.bz2 conveniently.

> If you want truly
> minimal package sizes, specify the blob(s) as external URLs rather than
> encoding them.

That's effectively identical to the behaviour implicit in my proposal.

> Come to think if it, it would be a simple transformation to "convert" a
> package from external references to a full binary, with something like
> a pkg_fetch command.  It would read a package with external URLs for
> the filesets, fetch them, and re-write the package with the blobs
> encased.

tar(1) is a simpler conversion.  ;-)

		Cheers,

		Mark.

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