Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2002 18:56:39 -0800 From: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.freebsd.org> To: "Paul Traina" <pst@pst.org> Cc: "Mikhail Teterin" <mi@aldan.algebra.com>, obrien@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/sysinstall install.c installUpgrade.c media.c package.c Message-ID: <23656.1017716199@winston.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: Message from "Paul Traina" <pst@pst.org> of "Mon, 01 Apr 2002 17:32:54 PST." <00e701c1d9e6$4ff44ac0$256b6fc0@shockwave.org>
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Hmmm. Sounds like someone has been looking at Apple disk images, and it wasn't even me! ;-) Nice idea, but somebody has to fix our unionfs not to panic the system first. Not it! - Jordan > While keeping in mind what day it is today, has anyone considered making > packages compressed CD9660 filesystems which can be mounted by the vndevice, > and then layered/stacked into place with unionfs? It would make for a very > sexy and robust "real" filesystem. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jordan Hubbard" <jkh@winston.freebsd.org> > To: "Mikhail Teterin" <mi@aldan.algebra.com> > Cc: <obrien@FreeBSD.org>; <cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org>; > <cvs-all@FreeBSD.org> > Sent: Monday, April 01, 2002 4:55 PM > Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/sysinstall install.c installUpgrade.c > media.c package.c > > > > > Why can't the packages be extracted "in place" by the sysinstall? > > > > Because that's just not the way it works. If you wanted to do that, > > you'd need to invert the logic of pkg_add to extract in place and then > > clean up the non-essentials, rather than extracting in a temporary > > directory, moving only the essentials into place, and then deleting > > the temp dir. You certainly shouldn't let us stop you from doing > > that, of course, and I'm sure someone will be happy to review your > > diffs. :) > > > > > Failing that, why can't the temporary directory be under the PREFIX, to > > > make the installations faster and less disk-space consuming? > > > > Same deal as above, with the added complication of not knowing the > > PREFIX up-front. > > > > The package utilities are a lot ickier inside than most people realize > > and one of the goals of libh was to replace all of that with a much > > cleaner mechanism. Volunteers for libh always welcome! > > > > - Jordan > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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