From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Jul 10 10: 0:54 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 620E837B401 for ; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 10:00:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.22.40]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 176FE43E4A for ; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 10:00:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.netel.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.12.1/8.12.1) with ESMTP id g6AH0eB2157868; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 13:00:40 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20020710095545.C65393@prism.flugsvamp.com> References: <20020710033154.GD8625@dan.emsphone.com> <20020710095545.C65393@prism.flugsvamp.com> Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 13:00:39 -0400 To: Jonathan Lemon , Jordan K Hubbard From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: Package system flaws? Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.3 (www dot roaringpenguin dot com slash mimedefang) 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 At 9:55 AM -0500 7/10/02, Jonathan Lemon wrote: >On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 09:10:42PM -0700, Jordan K Hubbard wrote: > > ..., but I will bring up something that nobody seems to have > > touched on yet: Fat packages. > >Why does this remind me of the pain I had to go through where I >had to download a .pkg to my netcom account, and write my own >'thinner' program to strip out the unwanted architecture cruft >before actually downloading the new .pkg over a 9600b link to >my NeXTSTEP/i386 machine? You didn't have to do that with *my* NeXTSTEP packages... :-) I always provided multiple files. Four single-architecture packages, and one fat package. If you needed to download two separate architectures, the four-architecture package was about the same size as two single-architecture packages (iirc). -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message