On Jan 19, 2008 10:02 AM, Peter Tribble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jan 18, 2008 6:19 PM, Dan Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri 18 Jan 2008 at 10:07AM, Chris Quenelle wrote: > > > For now, I'm planning on using traditional Solaris packages, > > > and uploading them with pkgsend. I'm curious what the next > > > step after that is. > > > > > > I'm interested in a standard format for something my Makefiles > > > can produce, that can later be uploaded. I'm assuming this > > > would be the logical equivalent of: > > > a tarball > > > a manifest (for checking) > > > any necessary metadata for dependencies, etc > > > > At some point I suggested zip or jar, with a metadata file. Since > > they are univerisally producable. > > See also my zap suggestion: > > http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=154588𥯜 > > I remain convinced that simple file-based distribution is essential - > distributing files is a lot more flexible, and likely to be far more > widely deployable, than having to set up specialised servers and > allow network access.
I agree. It is one of the things that excites me the most about ips. Almost every other packaging system (for mainstream operating systems) has this lousy requirement of downloading an archive again. I'm looking forward to functionality in ips that allows verification of all installed files for a package, and then downloading only those files that need "repair." However, I do see the advantage of optionally supporting an archive format. It makes distribution on media easier, and downloading, etc. easier to install onto devices without internet connections. I really like your "zap" package format :) That's a nifty name, and your reasoning behind it seems quite sound. However, I think I still prefer repositories to host individual files as they do now instead of big archives. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ "To err is human -- and to blame it on a computer is even more so." - Robert Orben _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
