From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Apr 16 23:39:39 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA11464 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 16 Apr 1998 23:39:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from zwei.siemens.at (zwei.siemens.at [193.81.246.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA11458 for ; Fri, 17 Apr 1998 06:39:30 GMT (envelope-from lada@pc8811.gud.siemens.at) Received: from pc8811.gud.siemens.at (root@firix [10.1.143.100]) by zwei.siemens.at with ESMTP id IAA03924; Fri, 17 Apr 1998 08:32:22 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from pc8811.gud.siemens.at (pc8811.gud.siemens.co.at [195.3.22.159]) by pc8811.gud.siemens.at (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA03706; Fri, 17 Apr 1998 08:33:48 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from lada@pc8811.gud.siemens.at) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.2 [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: <19980417015356.43655@follo.net> Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 08:33:48 +0200 (CEST) Organization: Siemens Austria AG From: Marino Ladavac To: Eivind Eklund Subject: Re: Package management (was Re: Come on guys, close a PR or two, Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Peter Jeremy Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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