Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1996 10:20:27 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FBSD 2.1 Message-ID: <273.821697627@critter.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 14 Jan 1996 23:06:05 PST." <1980.821689565@time.cdrom.com>
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> > Hmmm. Then why do the FreeBSD CD's ship with ZIP on them? It isn't > > from pkware, but rather the info-zip mailing list, but Unisys might > > still be an issue. > > Well, the redistribution conditions seem reasonable enough to do this, > I guess, but not so reasonable that I'd want to rely on them for our > package format! Zip can always be pulled out of ports with a "Sorry! > Didn't know!" but anything that the package tools depend on will, of > necessity, have to go into /usr/src so I'm not faced with a > bootstrapping problem. > > If I'm really wrong about zip, I'm willing to revisit this. I would > really be estatic at the prospect of a random-access mechanism for > the pkg tools! we have unzip in the kernel... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk Private mailbox. whois: [PHK] | phk@ref.tfs.com TRW Financial Systems, Inc. Future will arrive by its own means, progress not so.
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