Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 18:15:06 +0100 (BST) From: Mark Valentine <mark@thuvia.demon.co.uk> To: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> Cc: Doug Barton <DougB@freebsd.org>, Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>, arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Package system flaws? Message-ID: <200207111715.g6BHF6nb072300@dotar.thuvia.org> In-Reply-To: Wes Peters's message of Jul 10, 11:55pm
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> From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>
> Date: Wed 10 Jul, 2002
> Subject: Re: Package system flaws?
> > > Ick. Why not have the XML include the base.bz2 file in whatever encoding
> > > (including direct binary) we deem appropriate?
> >
> > That requires special tools to extract base.bz2 conveniently.
>
> Uh, yeah, that tool is "pkg_add".
It has side effects, though it may be the case that it has sufficient
options to turn them all off.
> Tar sucks for trying to extract the metadata only.
I only used tar as one particular bundling example, but it seems to serve the
purpose with:
tar --extract --to-stdout --fast-read --file foo-x.y.tar package.xml
> tar is fine for balling up groups of files, let's leave it at that.
That's all I was using for. Note that my updated examples showed a scheme
identical to the variant of your proposal which used external file references,
which I like better. The bundled variant was simply intended to make transport
of packages more convenient, at the expense of convenient direct access to the
files.
Cheers,
Mark.
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