Date: Mon, 25 Aug 1997 22:37:01 -0400 (EDT) From: <david@sparks.net> To: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> Cc: Warner Losh <imp@rover.village.org>, Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, Alexander Indenbaum <baum@actcom.co.il>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, A Joseph Koshy <koshy@india.hp.com>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Checking the integrity of system files Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.95.970825223629.1734C-100000@sparks.net> In-Reply-To: <199708251836.MAA20814@rocky.mt.sri.com>
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On Mon, 25 Aug 1997, Nate Williams wrote: > > 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. Paths can be re-written with pax:) --- David ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- It's *amazing* what one can accomplish when one doesn't know what one can't do!
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