From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jan 15 01:20:38 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id BAA29211 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 15 Jan 1996 01:20:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from tfs.com (tfs.com [140.145.250.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA29204 for ; Mon, 15 Jan 1996 01:20:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from critter.tfs.com by tfs.com (smail3.1.28.1) with SMTP id m0tbl5a-0003vkC; Mon, 15 Jan 96 01:20 PST Received: from localhost.tfs.com (localhost.tfs.com [127.0.0.1]) by critter.tfs.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id KAA00275; Mon, 15 Jan 1996 10:20:27 +0100 X-Authentication-Warning: critter.tfs.com: Host localhost.tfs.com didn't use HELO protocol To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: Warner Losh , hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FBSD 2.1 In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 14 Jan 1996 23:06:05 PST." <1980.821689565@time.cdrom.com> Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1996 10:20:27 +0100 Message-ID: <273.821697627@critter.tfs.com> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > 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.