Ivan Voras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > des@ mentioned putting metadata info at the front of the file - I > don't see how this would help. The most common operation with binary > packages *over the network* is "pkg_add -r", which will need to read > it whole anyway, and it would help greatly for things such as > installers from CD media. (Querying a bunch of packages over the > network for their properties, one by one, is not a good idea, but it > is on a local media).
Having the metadata in front means you don't need to store a temporary copy of the package in memory or on disk; you extract the metadata in memory, and the rest of the package directly in its final location. AFAIK, pkg_create makes sure that +CONTENTS is always the first file in the archive, precisely to make this possible. The fact that pkg_add doesn't take advantage of it is a bug. 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]"
