I'm risking to got broadsided by Johannes despite again, but...
Here we have proverb: nothing venture nothing have. I'll try.


On Sun, Jul 16, 2006 at 11:15:44PM +0200, Johannes Winkelmann wrote:
> Note that while the syntax definitely looks sane, it introduces a tight
> coupling between the location in the ports tree and the package
> installation, and would therefore require us to include the repository
> information as meta data.

I don't see the reason why pkgmk should generate any repo information
for the package if package building from sources. prt-get already informed
about from which repo it builds the package.

> Furthermore, when thinking of binary package management, this is easily
> spoofed (i.e. pretending to be a core package); to establish real trust,
> something like gnupg signatures might be better, although it would add
> quite a bit of additional complexity.

For the binary package management, the same story: there are binary
package repositories, user can choose to which repository he trusts.

If user downloaded single package, then he will not use prt-get, but
pkgadd. Pkgadd already have most strict policy: permissions conflicts
aborts pkgadd, as for the pre/post-install scripts... pkgadd have no clue
about them.

> Just my two cents here,
> Johannes

Same here.

-- Anton (irc: bd2)

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