From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Jul 9 20:32: 2 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 45C2C37B400; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 20:31:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B766743E58; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 20:31:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) id g6A3Vsoi023788; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 22:31:54 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 22:31:54 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Archie Cobbs Cc: Dan Moschuk , Dag-Erling Smorgrav , Wes Peters , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Package system flaws? Message-ID: <20020710033154.GD8625@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20020707153457.GA1086@scoobysnax.jaded.net> <200207100310.g6A3AZB23117@arch20m.dellroad.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200207100310.g6A3AZB23117@arch20m.dellroad.org> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i 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 In the last episode (Jul 09), Archie Cobbs said: > Dan Moschuk writes: > > I don't think using an archive format like zip would be a step in > > the right direction. If the package file format were to be > > redesigned, I would vote for a custom header prepended to a bziped > > tarball. > > tar has a limitation which I've encountered: suppose you have a port > that installs a man page with lots of references (i.e., hard linked > files with different names with a single underlying file). Then in > tar format, you get the same file copied N times. If we used cpio > instead (for example) then it "knows" how to handle hard links. Tar handles hardlinks just fine. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message