Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 15:38:58 +0000 From: Josef Karthauser <joe@tao.org.uk> To: Murray Stokely <murray@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org>, Steve Price <steve@havk.org>, portmgr@FreeBSD.org, re-x86@FreeBSD.org, binup@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: RC2 - Saturday? Message-ID: <20020114153858.C45893@genius.tao.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20020114071905.K27556@windriver.com>; from murray@FreeBSD.org on Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 07:19:05AM -0800 References: <20020112035210.P22273@windriver.com> <20020112125908.K816@bsd.havk.org> <20020112142950.O73815@squall.waterspout.com> <20020112141029.M816@bsd.havk.org> <20020112161652.V22273@windriver.com> <20020113131341.Y816@bsd.havk.org> <20020114053946.E27556@windriver.com> <20020114090342.D816@bsd.havk.org> <3C42F55C.F16390BD@FreeBSD.org> <20020114071905.K27556@windriver.com>
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--69pVuxX8awAiJ7fD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 07:19:05AM -0800, Murray Stokely wrote: > On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 05:12:28PM +0200, Maxim Sobolev wrote: > > Why not use bzip2 compressed packages? This will give you extra 5-10% > > (30-60MB). >=20 > Everyone seems to be in favor of this, but no one has added support > for sysinstall. We need a small lightweight package library that the > pkg_* tools can also use. As it stands now, it's possible for the > pkg_add tools to successfully manipulate a package that sysinstall > claims is invalid, because the package handling code is totally > different. Of course, whenever anyone opens this can of worms, they > embark upon a N year quest to write the mother of all packaging > systems, when all we really need is an incremental step towards a > generic library until something better is completed. Paul Richards and I are working on a generic library, but time availability isn't as copious as we'd hoped :(. Once we have something legible in writing I'll let you know. Joe --69pVuxX8awAiJ7fD Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAjxC+5EACgkQXVIcjOaxUBakBACgzacM1rbJ5pU1/ZCtqcGjqqGU qysAoI6t0gsUZ0EZKa5vOGKHMdTsNQq0 =MrUI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --69pVuxX8awAiJ7fD-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-binup" in the body of the message
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