From owner-freebsd-binup Mon Jan 14 7:39:12 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-binup@freebsd.org Received: from tao.org.uk (genius.tao.org.uk [212.135.162.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB03837B41C; Mon, 14 Jan 2002 07:39:07 -0800 (PST) Received: by tao.org.uk (Postfix, from userid 100) id 3D84743E; Mon, 14 Jan 2002 15:38:58 +0000 (GMT) Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 15:38:58 +0000 From: Josef Karthauser To: Murray Stokely Cc: Maxim Sobolev , Steve Price , portmgr@FreeBSD.org, re-x86@FreeBSD.org, binup@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: RC2 - Saturday? Message-ID: <20020114153858.C45893@genius.tao.org.uk> References: <20020112035210.P22273@windriver.com> <20020112125908.K816@bsd.havk.org> <20020112142950.O73815@squall.waterspout.com> <20020112141029.M816@bsd.havk.org> <20020112161652.V22273@windriver.com> <20020113131341.Y816@bsd.havk.org> <20020114053946.E27556@windriver.com> <20020114090342.D816@bsd.havk.org> <3C42F55C.F16390BD@FreeBSD.org> <20020114071905.K27556@windriver.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="69pVuxX8awAiJ7fD" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020114071905.K27556@windriver.com>; from murray@FreeBSD.org on Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 07:19:05AM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-binup@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --69pVuxX8awAiJ7fD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 07:19:05AM -0800, Murray Stokely wrote: > On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 05:12:28PM +0200, Maxim Sobolev wrote: > > Why not use bzip2 compressed packages? This will give you extra 5-10% > > (30-60MB). >=20 > Everyone seems to be in favor of this, but no one has added support > for sysinstall. We need a small lightweight package library that the > pkg_* tools can also use. As it stands now, it's possible for the > pkg_add tools to successfully manipulate a package that sysinstall > claims is invalid, because the package handling code is totally > different. Of course, whenever anyone opens this can of worms, they > embark upon a N year quest to write the mother of all packaging > systems, when all we really need is an incremental step towards a > generic library until something better is completed. Paul Richards and I are working on a generic library, but time availability isn't as copious as we'd hoped :(. Once we have something legible in writing I'll let you know. Joe --69pVuxX8awAiJ7fD Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAjxC+5EACgkQXVIcjOaxUBakBACgzacM1rbJ5pU1/ZCtqcGjqqGU qysAoI6t0gsUZ0EZKa5vOGKHMdTsNQq0 =MrUI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --69pVuxX8awAiJ7fD-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-binup" in the body of the message