Subject: Re: Proposal: new binary package format
To: None <tech-pkg@netbsd.org>
From: Matthias Scheler <tron@lyssa.owl.de>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 05/31/1999 08:55:33
In article <Pine.GSO.4.05.9905310251500.13904-100000@rfhs8036.fh-regensburg.de>,
	Hubert Feyrer <feyrer@rfhs8012.fh-regensburg.de> writes:
> You mean, like keep all the +-files in a .tgz (or something), and include
> that as first file in the binary package?

More the other way arround. Keep all the distribution files in a seperate
".tar.gz" inside a ".tar" file.

> Probably the saned thing to do, given that few and fewer packages can be
> relocated these days.

Yes, indeed

> We'd need to accompany changing LOCALBASE/X11BASE, though.

They can still be changed at build time.

> RPM allows simply adding a directory to their PLIST(aequivalent), and TRT
> will happen. 

I would prefer a command to be sure that you know what you want to do.

> ... and probably the accompanying @unexec lines.

Of course.

> When will you be done? :-)

If we finished the technical discussion.

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Matthias Scheler                                http://home.owl.de/~tron/