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Date: Sun, 7 Jul 2002 15:51:16 +0100
From: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org>
To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
Cc: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>, Dan Moschuk <dan@freebsd.org>,
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Subject: Re: Package system flaws?
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On Sun, Jul 07, 2002 at 12:09:05PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> One thing we could improve a lot is the package file format.  We
> currently use gzipped tarballs, which have to be completely unpacked
> before processing can begin.  One improvement we can make is to use an
> archive format such as zip that allows us to extract individual files
> quickly, so we can extract the metadata and check dependencies
> etc. without unpacking the entire package. =20

gzipped UFS filesystem images that can be mounted on a vn/md device. . .

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