Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 17:23:23 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: shimon@simon-shapiro.org Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, install@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New package scheme, early draft Message-ID: <199802140123.RAA05820@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 13 Feb 1998 17:23:10 PST." <XFMail.980213172310.shimon@simon-shapiro.org>
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> 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
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