Date: Fri, 13 Feb 98 16:29:02 -0800 From: Manu Iyengar <iyengar@pscwa.psca.com> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: install@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New package scheme, early draft Message-ID: <9802140029.AA01695@pscwa.psca.com> In-Reply-To: <199802132354.PAA05277@dingo.cdrom.com> References: <199802132354.PAA05277@dingo.cdrom.com>
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You guys might consider taking a look at the way NEXTSTEP & OPENSTEP handle packages. They provide some good paradigms/ideas to build upon, and make it really trivial to install stuff...Cheers, - m@psca.com >From the keyboard of Mike Smith on Fri, 13 Feb 1998: > Apolgies for omitting this from the previous message. > > New Software Packaging Tools for FreeBSD > ====================================================================== > (c) Michael Smith and contributors 1997, 1998 > > > What's wrong with the current tools? > ------------------------------------ > > - The current packaging tools have no sense of continuity, ie. > - there is no understanding that foo-1.2 is an upgrade to foo-1.1 > - installing foo-1.2 over the top of foo-1.1 does not transfer > dependancies from the old version. > > - It is not possible to apply updates to a package; packages can only > be installed wholesale. > > - The use of tar/gzip requires an expensive unpacking stage. > > - There is no mechanism for reverting to a previous version of a > package. > > - The information kept about files installed from a package is > not enough to verify the state of a package. > > - A file or directory cannot belong to more than one package. > > - Various combinations of the above make it impossible to use the > package tools for distributing components of the base system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-install" in the body of the message
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