On Friday 09 May 2008 13:52:46 Anders Nore wrote: > I'm working on adding .db support to the pkg_tools( i.e. pkg_add, > pkg_info, etc. ) as part of SoC 2008.
Is this gonna be optional? > One problem lies with the +* files which is scripts (e.g., +INSTALL, > +DEINSTALL). I've gotten some input that it's bad to save scripts in the > db, but if it's not going to be saved there, then where? Isn't it possible > to execute a script without saving a file to disk? Like using "sh -c > 'string'". In my personal opinion it should not be a hybrid solution where > you save the script files in an old fashion way, for example > /var/db/pkg/someport-1.2_1/+INSTALL, and the rest of the information lies > in the .db file. Because then you have redundancy and that could lead to > inconsistencies. Don't know what the reasons are for people to say it's bad to save scripts in the db, but for me it would be that I can't inspect and/or modify them, though if there were support in the ports for PKG(DE)INSTALL_LOCAL, I suppose I could do without the modification part. -- Mel _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
