From owner-freebsd-install Fri Feb 13 17:25:01 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA27130 for freebsd-install-outgoing; Fri, 13 Feb 1998 17:25:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-install@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA27122 for ; Fri, 13 Feb 1998 17:25:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA05820; Fri, 13 Feb 1998 17:23:23 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199802140123.RAA05820@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: shimon@simon-shapiro.org cc: Mike Smith , install@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New package scheme, early draft In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 13 Feb 1998 17:23:10 PST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 17:23:23 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-install@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Perfect! On most of my systems the staging space is not a problem, but I > can see how that can be important. 8) > An idea for a package is to use ar(1) for the pacage. It is a well > understood, inhenerntly Unix facility. A bit unusual, but why not? Because Zip supports compression, and we have an already-donated zipfile manipulation library. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-install" in the body of the message