Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 19:58:14 -0800 (PST) From: Simon Shapiro <shimon@simon-shapiro.org> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: install@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New package scheme, early draft Message-ID: <XFMail.980213195814.shimon@simon-shapiro.org> In-Reply-To: <199802140123.RAA05820@dingo.cdrom.com>
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On 14-Feb-98 Mike Smith wrote: >> 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. As long as the resulting file is not called TOOSHORT.EXE :-) > -- > \\ 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 ---------- Sincerely Yours, Simon Shapiro Shimon@Simon-Shapiro.ORG Voice: 503.708.7858 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-install" in the body of the message
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