From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Apr 16 16:54:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA19882 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 16 Apr 1998 16:54:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.119.24.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA19873 for ; Thu, 16 Apr 1998 23:54:02 GMT (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [194.198.43.36]) by ns1.yes.no (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id XAA01531; Thu, 16 Apr 1998 23:54:00 GMT Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id BAA05726; Fri, 17 Apr 1998 01:53:56 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19980417015356.43655@follo.net> Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 01:53:56 +0200 From: Eivind Eklund To: Marino Ladavac , Peter Jeremy Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Package management (was Re: Come on guys, close a PR or two, References: <199804152224.IAA03296@gsms01.alcatel.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Marino Ladavac on Thu, Apr 16, 1998 at 08:14:24PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Apr 16, 1998 at 08:14:24PM +0200, Marino Ladavac wrote: > > On 15-Apr-98 Peter Jeremy wrote: > > Some disadvantages of the SysV package style (or at least Sun's > > implementation thereof): > > 1) There's no provision for compressing the package. This is fairly > > essential for Internet-based distribution. > > This is a minor issue: I wrote SysV style, not SysV reimplementation. > It would be to our advantage at least to be able to read the SysV > packages. We can have our own stream format (used by default when > packaging) consisting basically of a header and a tar-gzipped data > tarred together. The header shall contain all dependency info, at least. > This is not unlike the present package format. Please - .zip without a header, so it is easy to manipulate without having the actual package tool installed, and to make it easy to decompress single files (which is important for some of the things we're planning to do with the packaging system). Eivind. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message