Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 23:36:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug Barton <DougB@FreeBSD.org> To: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>, Dan Moschuk <dan@FreeBSD.org>, <arch@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Package system flaws? Message-ID: <20020709233503.I5990-100000@master.gorean.org> In-Reply-To: <3D2A191C.3103D0FB@softweyr.com>
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On Mon, 8 Jul 2002, Wes Peters wrote:
> Doug Barton wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, 7 Jul 2002, Terry Lambert wrote:
> >
> > > > We want to be able to install a package from a non-rewindable source
> > > > without storing a temporary copy on disk. This means the metadata
> > > > must without fail be at the very beginning of the package.
> >
> > Ok, then what about storing the meta data as a seperate file? Why do they
> > have to be in the same package?
>
> So you can (md5, sign) them together and know that they "apply" to each
> other.
If we limit the metadata properly (for my definition of "proper") there
won't be anything that needs to be verified. The metadata file should of
course include the md5 of the package(s) it applies to directly.
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