On 02/25/10 01:15 PM, Clay Baenziger wrote: > Hi Evan, > One thing which a customer made a strong case for to me at Community > One, was support for splatting a tarball on a system (as it's a common > format for a heterogeneous OS shop). It seems it'd be useful to have an > automated way to do what's suggested in bug 9777 - Need way to publish a > tarball. This may be out of scope but it seems something which folks > would have used a post-install script for and might be easy and useful > to provide.
A better option than a tarball would be to use the pkg tools to dynamically create a pkg(5) package and install that. That has the added benefit of being able to verify the contents of the install including the "splatted" contents. I might note that pkgsend makes it very easy to import tarballs. Note that implementing this may depend upon delivery of the on-disk package format... Cheers, -- Shawn Walker
