I expand the lrp's as a regular user to avoid that.
--
Jack Coates
Monkeynoodle: It's what's for dinner!
On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Scott C. Best wrote:
>
> Actually I like .lrp as well, though my complaint
> with it is different. I find it difficult to extract files
> from a .lrp without potentially overwriting important system
> binaries on the development box.
> What'd be *much* nicer is if package.lrp expanded
> to /tmp/package, and then /tmp/package/package.list would be
> queried to find out where to put everything.
>
> -Scott
>
> On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, David Douthitt wrote:
>
> > I seem to be somewhat alone in that I *LIKE* the *.lrp packaging;
> > there is only one change I would make: rename the files from *.lrp to
> > *.tgz. This adds the ability to know what the file format is, and
> > allows Windows hosts to decipher the file automatically.
> >
> > However, there is support for unpacking RPM and DEB files within
> > busybox; I haven't played with them yet, but perhaps a new
> > distribution might find a need for them.
> >
> > I don't know about Debian packages, but RPMs are very nice for a full
> > system, work fast, upgrade well, have dependency checking..... and
> > also a huge database, lots of CPU overhead, and aren't usable with
> > generic UNIX utilities like tar, gzip, and cpio...
> >
> > Debian probably has a similar problem, yet I don't like their dpkg
> > hardly at all.
> >
> > I've also used Unixware packages and HP-UX depots; none of them share
> > the fundamental simplicity that the *.tar.gz file for LRP supports.
> > UNIX originally did EVERYTHING in files; I understand that Plan 9 (an
> > AT&T post-UNIX OS development) goes even FARTHER with this idea. Why
> > not use it in our packaging?
> >
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