From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Aug 25 11:37:07 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id LAA29939 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 25 Aug 1997 11:37:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rocky.mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA29924 for ; Mon, 25 Aug 1997 11:36:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.mt.sri.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA20814; Mon, 25 Aug 1997 12:36:40 -0600 (MDT) Date: Mon, 25 Aug 1997 12:36:40 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199708251836.MAA20814@rocky.mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Warner Losh Cc: Mike Smith , Alexander Indenbaum , "Jordan K. Hubbard" , A Joseph Koshy , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Checking the integrity of system files In-Reply-To: References: <199708240303.MAA00881@word.smith.net.au> X-Mailer: VM 6.29 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > In message <199708240303.MAA00881@word.smith.net.au> Mike Smith writes: > : Can you be more specific than "RPM-like"? Yes in that there will be > : management tools, no in that they are unlikely to be the RPM tools. > > Is there something funamentally wrong with the pkg format that is > already in use for the packages? Yeah, it requires 'unpacking' the sources in a temp directory, and then moving them to their actual locations. This means you must have 2X+ room to install a package. .2-8X room for the gzipped package, 1X room for the unpacked sources, and 1X room for the installed sources. This is why moving to a standard format like ZIP would be nice since it has a 'package listing' built in (plus encryption, passwords, and other nice features which could be used by commercial software). Unfortunately, no-one has the time/interest to build a 'zip' library. Nate