From owner-freebsd-binup Mon Jan 14 7:19:11 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-binup@freebsd.org Received: from mao.stokely.org (mao.stokely.org [65.84.64.228]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7AAEC37B402; Mon, 14 Jan 2002 07:19:07 -0800 (PST) Received: by mao.stokely.org (Postfix, from userid 2074) id 2EC104B65D; Mon, 14 Jan 2002 07:19:05 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 07:19:05 -0800 From: Murray Stokely To: Maxim Sobolev Cc: Steve Price , Murray Stokely , portmgr@FreeBSD.org, re-x86@FreeBSD.org, binup@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: RC2 - Saturday? Message-ID: <20020114071905.K27556@windriver.com> References: <20020109223847.P15454@windriver.com> <20020112035210.P22273@windriver.com> <20020112125908.K816@bsd.havk.org> <20020112142950.O73815@squall.waterspout.com> <20020112141029.M816@bsd.havk.org> <20020112161652.V22273@windriver.com> <20020113131341.Y816@bsd.havk.org> <20020114053946.E27556@windriver.com> <20020114090342.D816@bsd.havk.org> <3C42F55C.F16390BD@FreeBSD.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3C42F55C.F16390BD@FreeBSD.org>; from sobomax@FreeBSD.org on Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 05:12:28PM +0200 X-GPG-Key-ID: 1024D/0E451F7D X-GPG-Key-Fingerprint: E2CA 411D DD44 53FD BB4B 3CB5 B4D7 10A2 0E45 1F7D Sender: owner-freebsd-binup@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 05:12:28PM +0200, Maxim Sobolev wrote: > Why not use bzip2 compressed packages? This will give you extra 5-10% > (30-60MB). Everyone seems to be in favor of this, but no one has added support for sysinstall. We need a small lightweight package library that the pkg_* tools can also use. As it stands now, it's possible for the pkg_add tools to successfully manipulate a package that sysinstall claims is invalid, because the package handling code is totally different. Of course, whenever anyone opens this can of worms, they embark upon a N year quest to write the mother of all packaging systems, when all we really need is an incremental step towards a generic library until something better is completed. - Murray To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-binup" in the body of the message