From owner-freebsd-binup Sun Oct 14 18: 8:56 2001 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 76FB037B408; Sun, 14 Oct 2001 18:08:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: by tao.org.uk (Postfix, from userid 100) id 19E4113B; Mon, 15 Oct 2001 02:08:34 +0100 (BST) Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 02:08:34 +0100 From: Josef Karthauser To: Murray Stokely Cc: Eric Melville , binup@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: design issues Message-ID: <20011015020834.Y31066@tao.org.uk> References: <20011014170515.B39749@FreeBSD.org> <20011014180507.D2654@windriver.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="xd76R9tHJzDpbIo0" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011014180507.D2654@windriver.com>; from murray@FreeBSD.org on Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 06:05:07PM -0700 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 --xd76R9tHJzDpbIo0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 06:05:07PM -0700, Murray Stokely wrote: > On Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 05:05:15PM -0700, Eric Melville wrote: > > This weekend I sat down to work on some code for the binary updater, bu= t I > > didn't really get anything done because I thought that a few important > > decisions where yet to be made, and really affect what I'm going to be > > working on next. >=20 > I don't think that the situation is any different than when this > project started. >=20 > > 1. I've heard speculation of an entirely new package framework, that wo= uld >=20 > It's been talked about plenty of times. Jordan wrote a several page > outline about what he wanted in a next generation package system > at least 18 months ago. I'm personally a big fan of incremental > change, and I would like to see the base system broken up using our > current package framework for 5.0. =20 Our current package framework is inadequate. It needs to be reconstructed with a middle layer API to separate the underlying database representation from the package tools. Unfortuately the open-packages people don't appear to have realised this. :(. Joe --xd76R9tHJzDpbIo0 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 iEYEARECAAYFAjvKNxEACgkQXVIcjOaxUBb2twCfQusNBzMCZnAsrWLdR/mihM3q PoUAoK2wcR7EBPf4QQhm5q60N+e4QNhW =I86d -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --xd76R9tHJzDpbIo0-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-binup" in the body of the message