From owner-freebsd-binup Sat Oct 19 1:44: 1 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-binup@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9134E37B404; Sat, 19 Oct 2002 01:44:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.unitec.edu (mail.unitec.edu [216.72.84.41]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF8C843E6A; Sat, 19 Oct 2002 01:43:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from g.paredes@unitec.edu) Received: from dhcp-93-1.sulanet.net ([63.100.88.43]) by mail.unitec.edu (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id H480CL00.N6W; Sat, 19 Oct 2002 02:45:57 -0600 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" From: "GERARDO ENRIQUE PAREDES MANCIA" Reply-To: g.paredes@unitec.edu To: freebsd-binup@FreeBSD.org, murray@FreeBSD.org Subject: current state of the binup project Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2002 02:55:10 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200210190255.10557.g.paredes@unitec.edu> 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 I would like to know which is the current state of this project, if its s= till=20 being worked or is abandoned.=20 I also have some doubts about what the components in the current codebase= do,=20 for example, the current incarnation of updated only holds metadata for t= he=20 releases, profiles, files and such; my question is if updated is gonna=20 continue just being a meta-data server and the client will handle the act= ual=20 downloading and installing of the binary distributions using libfetch in = the=20 same style that pkg_install(1) and friends do? If so, how are you going t= o=20 handle the binary packages? are they going to be the same chunks that the= =20 distribution cd's hold?.=20 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-binup" in the body of the message