Date: Mon, 25 Aug 1997 23:24:50 -0700 (PDT) From: Simon Shapiro <Shimon@i-Connect.Net> To: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, A Joseph Koshy <koshy@india.hp.com>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, Alexander Indenbaum <baum@actcom.co.il>, Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, Warner Losh <imp@rover.village.org> Subject: Re: Checking the integrity of system files Message-ID: <XFMail.970825232450.Shimon@i-Connect.Net> In-Reply-To: <199708251836.MAA20814@rocky.mt.sri.com>
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Hi Nate Williams; On 25-Aug-97 you 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. Choose the Linux Debian format. Just joking! One neat trick there is actually keeping the package as an ar(chive) of gzipped files. Sounds crazy, but consider: * Almost no space for the framework. * Files can be extracted individually, and rapidly (well, faster than tar/cpio) * Everyone has one already. * TOC is trivial. * You can even take components out and put new ones in. The next step in this thinking is to use .so instead of .a files :-) But this is my sick sense of humor and I should really cut it out. Simon
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