Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 13:00:39 -0400 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@flugsvamp.com>, Jordan K Hubbard <jkh@queasyweasel.com> Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Package system flaws? Message-ID: <p05111747b95217efcbef@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <20020710095545.C65393@prism.flugsvamp.com> References: <20020710033154.GD8625@dan.emsphone.com> <FFFB5387-93BA-11D6-AACD-0003938C7B7E@queasyweasel.com> <20020710095545.C65393@prism.flugsvamp.com>
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At 9:55 AM -0500 7/10/02, Jonathan Lemon wrote: >On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 09:10:42PM -0700, Jordan K Hubbard wrote: > > ..., but I will bring up something that nobody seems to have > > touched on yet: Fat packages. > >Why does this remind me of the pain I had to go through where I >had to download a .pkg to my netcom account, and write my own >'thinner' program to strip out the unwanted architecture cruft >before actually downloading the new .pkg over a 9600b link to >my NeXTSTEP/i386 machine? You didn't have to do that with *my* NeXTSTEP packages... :-) I always provided multiple files. Four single-architecture packages, and one fat package. If you needed to download two separate architectures, the four-architecture package was about the same size as two single-architecture packages (iirc). -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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