From owner-freebsd-arch Sun Jul 7 13:55:41 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 9395E37B405; Sun, 7 Jul 2002 13:55:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFB2A43E54; Sun, 7 Jul 2002 13:55:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) Received: by flood.ping.uio.no (Postfix, from userid 2602) id 07441534A; Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:55:32 +0200 (CEST) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: Giorgos Keramidas Cc: Wes Peters , Dan Moschuk , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Package system flaws? References: <20020706220511.GA88651@scoobysnax.jaded.net> <3D27A296.D58FB4B4@softweyr.com> <20020707205043.GA2778@hades.hell.gr> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 07 Jul 2002 22:55:31 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20020707205043.GA2778@hades.hell.gr> Message-ID: Lines: 29 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 Giorgos Keramidas writes: > 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... That's precisely what I want to avoid. With tar, you always have to uncompress the entire package to find even just one file (unless you use the GNU-specific --fast-read option, in which case it stops once it finds the file you asked for) DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message