Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2007 03:27:08 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Tim Kientzle <tim@kientzle.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, rwatson@freebsd.org, cperciva@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Tar output mode for installworld Message-ID: <20070715002708.GA3665@kobe.laptop> In-Reply-To: <46992FFF.7010906@kientzle.com> References: <46992FFF.7010906@kientzle.com>
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On 2007-07-14 13:20, Tim Kientzle <tim@kientzle.com> wrote: > I saw this project suggestion on www.freebsd.org: > > <http://www.freebsd.org/projects/ideas/#p-taroutmode>; > > and thought I'd contribute a couple of ideas and notes: > > This is easy to implement using a trick that I stumbled across > a few years ago. The idea is to just build a description of > the final archive in a nice verbose text format such as: > > <file> <keyword> <data> > > E.g., > > bin/sh file /usr/obj/usr/src/bin/sh > bin/sh uname root > bin/sh gname wheel > rescue/mkdir hardlink rescue/rescue > bin/sh mode 0666 > bin/rcp mode 04666 This looks vaguely similar to the package 'prototype' files which Solaris uses for creating packages. I've written quite a few of them at ${realjob}, so if it looks interesting as a 'file list' format, I can help with the details. A packaging list for one of the distributions I've built at work includes stuff like: # Misc command-line tools in @prefix@/bin/... d none @prefix@/bin 0755 root bin f none @prefix@/bin/progname-2.0 0755 root bin s none @prefix@/bin/progname=progname-2.0 Something like this, which includes all the bits for a single file in one line may be nice even for mtree and verification of files installed :)
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