Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2002 17:32:54 -0800 From: "Paul Traina" <pst@pst.org> To: "Mikhail Teterin" <mi@aldan.algebra.com>, "Jordan Hubbard" <jkh@winston.freebsd.org> Cc: <obrien@FreeBSD.org>, <cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org>, <cvs-all@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/sysinstall install.c installUpgrade.c media.c package.c Message-ID: <00e701c1d9e6$4ff44ac0$256b6fc0@shockwave.org> References: <23280.1017708947@winston.freebsd.org>
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While keeping in mind what day it is today, has anyone considered making packages compressed CD9660 filesystems which can be mounted by the vndevice, and then layered/stacked into place with unionfs? It would make for a very sexy and robust "real" filesystem. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jordan Hubbard" <jkh@winston.freebsd.org> To: "Mikhail Teterin" <mi@aldan.algebra.com> Cc: <obrien@FreeBSD.org>; <cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org>; <cvs-all@FreeBSD.org> Sent: Monday, April 01, 2002 4:55 PM Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/sysinstall install.c installUpgrade.c media.c package.c > > Why can't the packages be extracted "in place" by the sysinstall? > > Because that's just not the way it works. If you wanted to do that, > you'd need to invert the logic of pkg_add to extract in place and then > clean up the non-essentials, rather than extracting in a temporary > directory, moving only the essentials into place, and then deleting > the temp dir. You certainly shouldn't let us stop you from doing > that, of course, and I'm sure someone will be happy to review your > diffs. :) > > > Failing that, why can't the temporary directory be under the PREFIX, to > > make the installations faster and less disk-space consuming? > > Same deal as above, with the added complication of not knowing the > PREFIX up-front. > > The package utilities are a lot ickier inside than most people realize > and one of the goals of libh was to replace all of that with a much > cleaner mechanism. Volunteers for libh always welcome! > > - Jordan > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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