From owner-freebsd-security Mon May 15 8:12:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from obie.softweyr.com (obie.softweyr.com [204.68.178.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6004837B7A8 for ; Mon, 15 May 2000 08:12:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from softweyr.com (homer.softweyr.com [204.68.178.39]) by obie.softweyr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA08034; Mon, 15 May 2000 09:12:24 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Message-ID: <3920145A.D38B5731@softweyr.com> Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 09:14:34 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michael Robinson Cc: nate@yogotech.com, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New packaging tool (was Re: Applying patches with out a compiler) References: <200005131111.TAA13455@netrinsics.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Michael Robinson wrote: > > Nate Williams writes: > >There are numerous advantages to using something like ZIP, including > >removing the requirement to 'unpack' the archive in a staging area, > >since we could now unpack it directly in it's installation location. > > > >ZIP also allows signatures, and we have lots of free software that we > >can leverage to implement the tools with it. > > Or, heck, why not JAR format, seeing as it's a well-defined standard, does > everything necessary, and has multiple interoperable implementations. JARs have a table of contents? -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message