From owner-freebsd-arch Sun Jul 7 13:51:13 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 324D037B400; Sun, 7 Jul 2002 13:51:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D35BF43E3B; Sun, 7 Jul 2002 13:51:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from shadow.otenet.gr (shadow.otenet.gr [195.170.0.7]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.12.4/8.12.4) with ESMTP id g67Kp1FD008957; Sun, 7 Jul 2002 23:51:01 +0300 (EEST) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-b142.otenet.gr [212.205.244.150]) by shadow.otenet.gr (8.12.4/8.12.4) with ESMTP id g67KokHE008099; Sun, 7 Jul 2002 23:50:47 +0300 (EEST) Received: from hades.hell.gr (hades [127.0.0.1]) by hades.hell.gr (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g67KojS9015766; Sun, 7 Jul 2002 23:50:45 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g67KoiFL015756; Sun, 7 Jul 2002 23:50:44 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Sun, 7 Jul 2002 23:50:43 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: Wes Peters , Dan Moschuk , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Package system flaws? Message-ID: <20020707205043.GA2778@hades.hell.gr> References: <20020706220511.GA88651@scoobysnax.jaded.net> <3D27A296.D58FB4B4@softweyr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT i386 X-PGP-Fingerprint: C1EB 0653 DB8B A557 3829 00F9 D60F 941A 3186 03B6 X-Phone: +30-944-116520 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 On 2002-07-07 12:09 +0000, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Wes Peters writes: > > Dan Moschuk wrote: > > > Where can we improve? > > In all of the above areas, plus all the ones we haven't addressed yet. > > *grin* > > One thing we could improve a lot is the package file format. We > currently use gzipped tarballs, which have to be completely unpacked > before processing can begin. One improvement we can make is to use an > archive format such as zip that allows us to extract individual files > quickly, so we can extract the metadata and check dependencies > etc. without unpacking the entire package. Err, that can be done with tar too. Although one might argue that reading the entire archive (instead of a small TOC at the beginning or end of the archive) is a bit clumsier... % cat archive | ( cd /tmp; tar xzvf - PKG_METADATA ) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message