From owner-freebsd-install Fri Feb 13 19:51:27 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA21097 for freebsd-install-outgoing; Fri, 13 Feb 1998 19:51:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-install@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sendero.simon-shapiro.org (sendero-fxp0.Simon-Shapiro.ORG [206.190.148.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id TAA21092 for ; Fri, 13 Feb 1998 19:51:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from shimon@sendero-fxp0.simon-shapiro.org) Received: (qmail 12333 invoked by uid 1000); 14 Feb 1998 03:58:14 -0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3-alpha-020998 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199802140123.RAA05820@dingo.cdrom.com> Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 19:58:14 -0800 (PST) Reply-To: shimon@simon-shapiro.org Organization: The Simon Shapiro Foundation From: Simon Shapiro To: Mike Smith Subject: Re: New package scheme, early draft Cc: install@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-install@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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