Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 15:07:27 -0400 From: Mike Meyer <mwm-keyword-freebsdhackers2.e313df@mired.org> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Ivan Voras <ivoras@fer.hr> Subject: Re: New FreeBSD package system (a.k.a. Daemon Package System (dps)) Message-ID: <17988.48879.828384.170557@bhuda.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <20070511184259.GA23483@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <200705102105.27271.blackdragon@highveldmail.co.za> <f20c8u$htp$1@sea.gmane.org> <17987.52037.112351.872442@bhuda.mired.org> <20070511015156.GA77895@xor.obsecurity.org> <17987.52970.398402.580727@bhuda.mired.org> <20070511021249.GA78729@xor.obsecurity.org> <17987.57305.7130.873114@bhuda.mired.org> <20070511051852.GA89359@xor.obsecurity.org> <17988.32573.910854.388638@bhuda.mired.org> <20070511184259.GA23483@xor.obsecurity.org>
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In <20070511184259.GA23483@xor.obsecurity.org>, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> typed: > The point is that the real problem is: "how do you arrange the bits on > disk", not "how do you wrap that in a package system". Until you > figure out a workable on-disk arrangement for the files, questions > about packaging are not relevant. And it seems that option 1 is the > only workable one in practise (unless you have some other idea), which > can easily be achieved today with a couple of hours of kernel hacking. There are clearly other workable ideas - as I said, the linux folks managed to make it work. But it's not an easy problem. I certainly wouldn't suggest rebuilding the packaging system to deal with this, except as part of a larger effort. On the other hand, since people are working on the ports/package system (I see port/pkg database and some ports infrastructure work in the current SoC projects list), not keeping this goal in mind would seem to be a bit short-sighted. I wouldn't be surprised if your option #1 could benefit from this as well. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information.
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