Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 01:53:56 +0200 From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no> To: Marino Ladavac <lada@pc8811.gud.siemens.at>, Peter Jeremy <Peter.Jeremy@alcatel.com.au> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Package management (was Re: Come on guys, close a PR or two, Message-ID: <19980417015356.43655@follo.net> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.980416201424.lada@pc8811.gud.siemens.at>; from Marino Ladavac on Thu, Apr 16, 1998 at 08:14:24PM %2B0200 References: <199804152224.IAA03296@gsms01.alcatel.com.au> <XFMail.980416201424.lada@pc8811.gud.siemens.at>
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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
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