From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Jul 12 16:41:56 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DAF337B400 for ; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 16:41:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from w250.z064001178.sjc-ca.dsl.cnc.net (adsl-66.218.45.239.dslextreme.com [66.218.45.239]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D1D6243E5E for ; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 16:41:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jos@catnook.com) Received: (qmail 26659 invoked by uid 1000); 12 Jul 2002 23:42:14 -0000 Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 16:41:52 -0701 From: Jos Backus To: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Package system flaws? Message-ID: <20020712234214.GC32583@lizzy.catnook.com> Reply-To: jos@catnook.com Mail-Followup-To: arch@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200207122324.g6CNOQ7L020672@dotar.thuvia.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200207122324.g6CNOQ7L020672@dotar.thuvia.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Jul 13, 2002 at 12:24:26AM +0100, Mark Valentine wrote: > Being guaranteed the /var/db/pkg/thuvia.co.uk/* (or > /var/db/pkg/uk/co/thuvia/*, whatever) name space would be better, of course, > as would be being able to re-target the installation (but I can of course > resort to my icky hack of editing the binaries in a post-install script if > this becomes an issue). Also, fyi, see the ``Delegations'' section on http://cr.yp.to/slashpackage/names.html -- Jos Backus _/ _/_/_/ Santa Clara, CA _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ jos@catnook.com _/_/ _/_/_/ require 'std/disclaimer' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message