The real question is how will the gnu packages look like. If the stowfs is the choice, then the packages would most probably be some kind of tarballs (or as in .deb, ar archive with .targz data and targz metadata). It is not too hard to create something that would build & install such packages, but the package structure should be determined first. At least I would say so...
GNU Packages will be flat tarballs. What kind of meta-data is still to be decided. The whole infrastructure to build the whole GNU system is also done (it is a bit awkward to build it right now so it spits out a tarball/iso image, but a voluenteer wanted to fix that, but I haven't heard anything from him yet, so maybe I'll do it over the weekend). In either case, I don't think there will be much extracting of packages when on installs GNU, since the plan is to have a LiveCD which will simply copy itself over to the target when installing. So much of the installer can be done without any knowledge about the actual packages. Alas, we must fix stowfs so that it can be used on boot. Gianluca is right now busy with other things, so unless someone pops up and wants to do that, I'll try to fix it so that it works this weekend. Cheers. _______________________________________________ gnu-system-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-system-discuss
