Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 08:33:48 +0200 (CEST) From: Marino Ladavac <lada@pc8811.gud.siemens.at> To: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Peter Jeremy <Peter.Jeremy@alcatel.com.au> Subject: Re: Package management (was Re: Come on guys, close a PR or two, Message-ID: <XFMail.980417083348.lada@pc8811.gud.siemens.at> In-Reply-To: <19980417015356.43655@follo.net>
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On 16-Apr-98 Eivind Eklund wrote: > 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). > I must have expressed myself poorly: what I meant is that one has a compressed archive with the package files, a metadata file (what I called header even though it isn't) and then one tars them (i.e. the already compressed archive containing package files, and the metadata file) together to get the package. The metadata file comes first in the tar archive in order to be found quickly, thus behaving rather like a header (but readable). /Marino ---------------------------------- Marino Ladavac Date: 17-Apr-98 Time: 08:29:11 ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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