From owner-freebsd-arch Sun Jul 7 14:28:56 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 8FDBC37B401; Sun, 7 Jul 2002 14:28:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 049E843E65; Sun, 7 Jul 2002 14:28:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) Received: by flood.ping.uio.no (Postfix, from userid 2602) id 1FDC6534A; Sun, 7 Jul 2002 23:28:50 +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: Doug Barton Cc: Dan Moschuk , arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Package system flaws? References: <20020706220511.GA88651@scoobysnax.jaded.net> <3D27A296.D58FB4B4@softweyr.com> <20020707153457.GA1086@scoobysnax.jaded.net> <3D28AF72.8F14DC40@FreeBSD.org> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 07 Jul 2002 23:28:49 +0200 In-Reply-To: <3D28AF72.8F14DC40@FreeBSD.org> Message-ID: Lines: 15 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 Doug Barton writes: > What is it about working on ports that makes people automatically > gravitate to the most hideous, complicated solutions? Why not just > create a tarball with the stuff to install, create the metadata file (in > whatever format), then create a tarball with the two together? Then, > step one is to unroll the tarball, read the metadata, grab dependencies > if needed, then proceed to do the rest of the install. We want to be able to install a package from a non-rewindable source without storing a temporary copy on disk. This means the metadata must without fail be at the very beginning of the package. 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