Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 15:10:57 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Mike Meyer <mwm-keyword-freebsdhackers2.e313df@mired.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Ivan Voras <ivoras@fer.hr>, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: New FreeBSD package system (a.k.a. Daemon Package System (dps)) Message-ID: <20070511191057.GA25833@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <17988.48879.828384.170557@bhuda.mired.org> References: <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> <17988.48879.828384.170557@bhuda.mired.org>
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On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 03:07:27PM -0400, Mike Meyer wrote: > 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. But you said you were interested in working on it...so what is your idea? Kris
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