From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Sep 8 21:47:02 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id VAA02206 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 8 Sep 1997 21:47:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from euthyphro.uchicago.edu (euthyphro.uchicago.edu [128.135.21.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA02197 for ; Mon, 8 Sep 1997 21:46:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaedrus.uchicago.edu (phaedrus [128.135.21.10]) by euthyphro.uchicago.edu (8.8.6/8.8.4) with ESMTP id XAA13543; Mon, 8 Sep 1997 23:46:40 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from sfarrell@localhost) by phaedrus.uchicago.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA22143; Mon, 8 Sep 1997 23:46:33 -0500 (CDT) To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: "S. Sigala" , Brandon Gillespie , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: My FreeBSD Wish List... References: <16716.873766786@time.cdrom.com> From: stephen farrell Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.89) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Date: 08 Sep 1997 23:46:33 -0500 In-Reply-To: "Jordan K. Hubbard"'s message of "Mon, 08 Sep 1997 17:59:46 -0700" Message-ID: <87vi0b9jrq.fsf@phaedrus.uchicago.edu> Lines: 18 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.4.64/XEmacs 19.15 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk "Jordan K. Hubbard" writes: > > I have thought a bit more about the RPM idea; you are right, the > > differences are not so much large... it is best to extend the existing > > code... i will post asap in the next days > > a table of differences between the two packaging system (pros and cons). > > Well, please do also bear in mind that the entire package installer is > soon to be replaced by a completely from-scratch effort. The existing > package tools, like the existing system installation tools, are > *prototypes* which lived about 2 years longer than intended. ;-) cool--who's working on this? is there a url with more info? -- Steve Farrell