Ivan Voras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > - A quick test confirms that the current bsdtar will happily ignore any > extra data at the end of a tgz/tbz archive, so package metadata can be > embedded there, thus conserving existing infrastructure and being fast > to parse. I suggest encoding this metadata in a sane and easy to parse > XML structure.
This has been discussed a million times before. The metadata needs to be at the *start* of the package file, otherwise networked installs (such as pkg_add -r) of large packages will require huge amounts of memory and / or temporary disk storage. DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
