Date: Sun, 7 Jul 2002 20:02:13 -0700 From: Jordan K Hubbard <jkh@queasyweasel.com> To: Mark Valentine <mark@thuvia.demon.co.uk> Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>, Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>, Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>, Dan Moschuk <dan@freebsd.org>, arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Package system flaws? Message-ID: <1A55D91B-921F-11D6-AACD-0003938C7B7E@queasyweasel.com> In-Reply-To: <200207080159.g681xkTX040304@dotar.thuvia.org>
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On Sunday, July 7, 2002, at 06:59 PM, Mark Valentine wrote: >> 1) Allows random access AND compression > > At the expense of having to seek to the end first? What about access > to the > metadata over a slow data stream, like you might have got with tar > --fast-read? Having to seek to the end is, indeed, one of the major draw-backs of zip. I have no idea why the originators, in their infinite wisdom, put it there. I also don't much like the red hat approach of concocting a totally new archive format, however, even if its an agglomeration of an existing archive format. Perhaps Garrett's pax recommendation has more merit than we thought, unless people have other candidates to put forward. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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