Date: 07 Jul 2002 22:55:31 +0200 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> Cc: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>, Dan Moschuk <dan@FreeBSD.ORG>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Package system flaws? Message-ID: <xzp4rfbntq4.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: <20020707205043.GA2778@hades.hell.gr> References: <20020706220511.GA88651@scoobysnax.jaded.net> <3D27A296.D58FB4B4@softweyr.com> <xzplm8nrgse.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <20020707205043.GA2778@hades.hell.gr>
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Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> writes: > On 2002-07-07 12:09 +0000, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> writes: > > > Dan Moschuk wrote: > > > > Where can we improve? > > > In all of the above areas, plus all the ones we haven't addressed yet. > > > > *grin* > > > > One thing we could improve a lot is the package file format. We > > currently use gzipped tarballs, which have to be completely unpacked > > before processing can begin. One improvement we can make is to use an > > archive format such as zip that allows us to extract individual files > > quickly, so we can extract the metadata and check dependencies > > etc. without unpacking the entire package. > > Err, that can be done with tar too. Although one might argue that > reading the entire archive (instead of a small TOC at the beginning or > end of the archive) is a bit clumsier... That's precisely what I want to avoid. With tar, you always have to uncompress the entire package to find even just one file (unless you use the GNU-specific --fast-read option, in which case it stops once it finds the file you asked for) DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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