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Date:      Tue, 19 Jun 2001 22:35:30 +0200
From:      Alexander Langer <alex@big.endian.de>
To:        "Antoine Beaupre (LMC)" <Antoine.Beaupre@ericsson.ca>
Cc:        libh@FreeBSD.ORG, Richy Kim <richy@apple.com>
Subject:   Re: packagetool.tcl
Message-ID:  <20010619223530.E3034@zerogravity.kawo2.rwth-aachen.d>
In-Reply-To: <3B2F8B52.2090100@lmc.ericsson.se>; from Antoine.Beaupre@ericsson.ca on Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 01:26:42PM -0400
References:  <20010614124213.A41047@fump.kawo2.rwth-aachen.de> <200106141756.KAA11439@scv3.apple.com> <20010615171239.B935@zerogravity.kawo2.rwth-aachen.d> <20010619115903.F65489@bohr.physics.purdue.edu> <20010619191557.B667@zerogravity.kawo2.rwth-aachen.d> <3B2F8B52.2090100@lmc.ericsson.se>

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Thus spake Antoine Beaupre (LMC) (Antoine.Beaupre@ericsson.ca):

> > libh's package library completely uses TCL for everything.
> > OpenPackages wants its own packaging format, so we have to support
> > OpenPackages format in libh's libs.
> Using tcl, you also mean in the package install procedures?

Yes

> I mean, to replace the usual @exec tags and other PLIST items of the
> old system?

Yes, you can specify whole scripts that do that, or the package fails
back to default scripts if not defined.

> As I understood from Jordan's inital proposal, TCL would be a way to 
> sandbox these installs..

Yes, a secure-interpreter is used, which allows only a subset of
commands.  (This is actually described in sysinstall2.txt)

Alex

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