From owner-freebsd-arch Sun Jul 7 20:55:16 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4E5D37B400; Sun, 7 Jul 2002 20:55:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net (scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.49]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6724743E3B; Sun, 7 Jul 2002 20:55:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0280.cvx21-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.193.25] helo=mindspring.com) by scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 17RPcB-000279-00; Sun, 07 Jul 2002 23:55:07 -0400 Message-ID: <3D290CEF.7181BE71@mindspring.com> Date: Sun, 07 Jul 2002 20:54:23 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug Barton Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav , Dan Moschuk , arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Package system flaws? References: <20020707152651.V679-100000@master.gorean.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Doug Barton wrote: > On Sun, 7 Jul 2002, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > We want to be able to install a package from a non-rewindable source > > > without storing a temporary copy on disk. This means the metadata > > > must without fail be at the very beginning of the package. > > Ok, then what about storing the meta data as a seperate file? Why do they > have to be in the same package? For the same reason the fact that root owns /etc/master.passwd is not in a seperate file? -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message