Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 18:41:41 +0100 (BST) From: Mark Valentine <mark@thuvia.demon.co.uk> To: wes@softweyr.com (Wes Peters), Cy Schubert - CITS Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca> Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>, Doug Barton <DougB@freebsd.org>, Dan Moschuk <dan@freebsd.org>, arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Package system flaws? Message-ID: <200207111741.g6BHffn8073047@dotar.thuvia.org> In-Reply-To: Wes Peters's message of Jul 11, 6:53am
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> From: wes@softweyr.com (Wes Peters)
> Date: Thu 11 Jul, 2002
> Subject: Re: Package system flaws?
> The idea I like the best is to have the filesets (picture a .tar.gz
> or a .zip here) be external references on the fileserver; the XML
> contains all the metadata and URLs for the filesets. As you fetch
> the XML, or after you've fetched all of the XML, you fetch the
> filesets you're not skipping. Once you have the filesets on local
> storage, you can rewrite the URL references or convert them to
> in-line encoding, leaving the ones that have been skipped in the
> original URL encoding.
This is equivalent to my proposal, except that I don't see much value
in converting to the in-line encoding, and my method specifies a directory
name (or any suitable simple archive name) containing a package.xml and
compressed file sets, whereas you presumably expect the XML file to be the
primary referenced object.
> For instance:
>
> <package name="cat">
> <fileset type="binaries" location="@HTTP_MASTER_SITE@/cat.bin.tar.gz" root="@ROOT@" />
> <fileset type="manpages" location="@HTTP_MASTER_SITE@/cat.man.tar.gz" root="@MAN@" />
> <fileset type="language" encoding="en_US" location="@HTTP_MASTER_SITE@/cat.en_US.tar.gz" />
> <fileset type="language" encoding="en_UK" location="@HTTP_MASTER_SITE@/cat.en_UK.tar.gz" />
> <fileset type="language" encoding="fr_FR" location="@HTTP_MASTER_SITE@/cat.fr_FR.tar.gz" />
> </package>
My equivalent would be:
<package name="cat">
<fileset type="binaries" location="bin.tar.gz" root="@ROOT@" />
<fileset type="manpages" location="man.tar.gz" root="@MAN@" />
<fileset type="language" encoding="en_US" location="en_US.tar.gz" />
<fileset type="language" encoding="en_UK" location="en_UK.tar.gz" />
<fileset type="language" encoding="fr_FR" location="fr_FR.tar.gz" />
</package>
or:
name=cat
bin=bin.tar.gz
man=man.tar.gz
lang[en_US]=en_US.tar.gz
lang[en_UK]=en_UK.tar.gz
lang[fr_FR]=fr_FR.tar.gz
according to taste.
> Now assume you specified you want to install only the en_UK language
> files. pkg_add would leave the en_US and fr_FR as external references,
> download the binaries, man pages, and en_UK filesets, and convert those
> three into local file references OR directly encode them into the
> package file.
Same except that I don't need the last step, though I could optionally
bundle up for archiving purposes.
Cheers,
Mark.
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