Tar output mode for installworld

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On 2007-07-14 19:45, Tim Kientzle <tim at kientzle.com> wrote:
>On 2007-07-14 13:20, Tim Kientzle <tim at kientzle.com> wrote:
>>> <http://www.freebsd.org/projects/ideas/#p-taroutmode>
>>>
>>> This is easy to implement using a ... text format such as:
>>>  bin/sh file /usr/obj/usr/src/bin/sh
>>>  bin/sh uname root
>>>  rescue/mkdir hardlink rescue/rescue
>>>  bin/sh mode 0666
>>>  bin/rcp mode 04666
>
>Giorgos Keramidas responds:
>> A packaging list for one of the distributions I've built at work
>> includes stuff like:
>>     # Misc command-line tools in @prefix@/bin/...
>>     d none @prefix@/bin 0755 root bin
>>     f none @prefix@/bin/progname-2.0 0755 root bin
>>     s none @prefix@/bin/progname=progname-2.0
>
> My concern is that "all of the bits for one file" may not always be
> available at a single place in the build.  Some programs use the
> "afterinstall" hook to set flags on the installed binary, for example.

Ah, I see now :-)

Yes, that would not be easy to support with a single-line format, at
least not without some sort of post-processing of the file list.  But if
we *are* going to need postprocessing, it may as well be a multiline
format, like the one you suggested.

- Giorgos