From owner-freebsd-binup Sun Oct 14 18: 5:26 2001 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 004BC37B40B; Sun, 14 Oct 2001 18:05:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mao.stokely.org (Postfix, from userid 2074) id B5D574B65D; Sun, 14 Oct 2001 18:05:07 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2001 18:05:07 -0700 From: Murray Stokely To: Eric Melville Cc: binup@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: design issues Message-ID: <20011014180507.D2654@windriver.com> References: <20011014170515.B39749@FreeBSD.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="d6Gm4EdcadzBjdND" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011014170515.B39749@FreeBSD.org>; from eric@FreeBSD.org on Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 05:05:15PM -0700 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 --d6Gm4EdcadzBjdND Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 05:05:15PM -0700, Eric Melville wrote: > This weekend I sat down to work on some code for the binary updater, but I > didn't really get anything done because I thought that a few important > decisions where yet to be made, and really affect what I'm going to be > working on next. I don't think that the situation is any different than when this project started. > 1. I've heard speculation of an entirely new package framework, that would It's been talked about plenty of times. Jordan wrote a several page outline about what he wanted in a next generation package system at least 18 months ago. I'm personally a big fan of incremental change, and I would like to see the base system broken up using our current package framework for 5.0. =20 # pkg_add bin.tgz ;) - Murray --d6Gm4EdcadzBjdND Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (SunOS) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7yjZCtNcQog5FH30RAknIAJ4oqBPp2345PInKxWtEi7Rs7/DbGwCcDyUo KAP9Btm3xEB3BjicFcsJaxA= =7jSQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --d6Gm4EdcadzBjdND-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-binup" in the body of the message