New FreeBSD package system (a.k.a. Daemon Package System (dps))

[Dag-Erling Smørgrav]

Ivan Voras <ivoras at fer.hr> writes:
> - A quick test confirms that the current bsdtar will happily ignore any
> extra data at the end of a tgz/tbz archive, so package metadata can be
> embedded there, thus conserving existing infrastructure and being fast
> to parse. I suggest encoding this metadata in a sane and easy to parse
> XML structure.

This has been discussed a million times before.  The metadata needs to
be at the *start* of the package file, otherwise networked installs
(such as pkg_add -r) of large packages will require huge amounts of
memory and / or temporary disk storage.

DES
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