Ivan Voras wrote:
- 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...
Not a good idea at all. 1) Keeping everything within the archive makes it possible for people to do surgery on the packages. Being able to extract/modify/rebuild packages using just tar makes it much easier to debug and experiment with new techniques. 2) The existing metadata format is not very pretty, but it can be reasonably extended. (Personally, I don't find XML very pretty, either. ;-) 3) As DES pointed out, the package tools must be able to read the metadata before the files. If you really need a completely separate metadata file, make it the second file in the archive. Tim Kientzle _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
