Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2003 11:47:54 -0800 From: Tim Kientzle <kientzle@acm.org> To: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSD tar (was Re: Making pkg_XXX tools smarter about file types...) Message-ID: <3E8749EA.2030801@acm.org> References: <3E42C148.4050807@acm.org> <20030329012828.GA32891@intruder.bmah.org> <3E85418F.8010201@acm.org> <200303301043.51087.wes@softweyr.com>
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Wes Peters wrote: > On Friday 28 March 2003 22:47, Tim Kientzle wrote: >>With this [tar library], it should be possible to make pkg_add >>considerably more efficient. > > I'd much rather see the metadata moved outside the file archives, but > that's a separate argument and in now way detracts from your proposed > work. ;^) I've given up trying to argue for a well-designed package file format. tar works well enough, I suppose. (Better than the oft-suggested 'zip' format. Ugh.) Tim Kientzle
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