Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 23:55:03 +0100 (BST) From: Mark Valentine <mark@thuvia.demon.co.uk> To: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> Cc: Doug Barton <DougB@freebsd.org>, Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>, arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Package system flaws? Message-ID: <200207092255.g69Mt3n8011431@dotar.thuvia.org> In-Reply-To: Wes Peters's message of Jul 8, 3:41pm
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> From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> > Date: Mon 8 Jul, 2002 > Subject: Re: Package system flaws? > Mark Valentine wrote: > > Example 1: simple package, not sub-packaged. > > > > $ ls /var/spool/pkg/foo-x.y > > base.bz2 package.xml > > Ick. Why not have the XML include the base.bz2 file in whatever encoding > (including direct binary) we deem appropriate? That requires special tools to extract base.bz2 conveniently. > If you want truly > minimal package sizes, specify the blob(s) as external URLs rather than > encoding them. That's effectively identical to the behaviour implicit in my proposal. > Come to think if it, it would be a simple transformation to "convert" a > package from external references to a full binary, with something like > a pkg_fetch command. It would read a package with external URLs for > the filesets, fetch them, and re-write the package with the blobs > encased. tar(1) is a simpler conversion. ;-) Cheers, Mark. -- Mark Valentine, Thuvia Labs <mark@thuvia.co.uk> <http://www.thuvia.co.uk>; "Tigers will do ANYTHING for a tuna fish sandwich." Mark Valentine uses "We're kind of stupid that way." *munch* *munch* and endorses FreeBSD -- <http://www.calvinandhobbes.com>; <http://www.freebsd.org>; To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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