Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 15:42:35 +0100 (BST) From: Mark Valentine <mark@thuvia.demon.co.uk> To: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> Cc: Cy Schubert - CITS Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca>, 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: <200207121442.g6CEgZGc002989@dotar.thuvia.org> In-Reply-To: Wes Peters's message of Jul 12, 12:23am
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> From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>
> Date: Fri 12 Jul, 2002
> Subject: Re: Package system flaws?
> The default place to stick the filesets downloaded, IMHO, is the
> directory where the XML file is located. No surprises, easy to find
> a filesystem that has space available, etc.
I hadn't actually considered any other option besides that.
In my scheme it's the directory name that you key off, and the metadata is
in a fixed name file, e.g.
$ ls /var/spool/pkg/bar-m.n
base.bz2 devel.bz2 doc.bz2 package.xml
$ pkg_add /var/spool/pkg/bar-m.n
Alternatively, using a "bundling transformation":
$ (cd /var/spool/pkg/bar-m.n; tar cf ../bar-m.n.tar *.xml *.bz2)
$ pkg_add /var/spool/pkg/bar-m.n.tar
Am I right in saying that you have something like the following scheme in
mind?
$ ls /var/spool/pkg
bar-m.n-base.bz2 bar-m.n-doc.bz2 foo-x.y-base.bz2
bar-m.n-devel.bz2 bar-m.n.xml foo-x.y.xml
In that case my "bundling transformation" becomes:
$ (cd /var/spool/pkg; tar cf bar-m.n.tar bar-m.n.xml bar-m.n-*.bz2)
My scheme eats more inodes, but I prefer the shorter file names. However,
I'm happy with whichever ends up being ultimately more useful.
Cheers,
Mark.
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