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#! rnews 1863 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.bhp.com.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!europa.chnt.gtegsc.com!gatech!newsxfer2.itd.umich.edu!agate!reason.cdrom.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: large packages, digitally signed packages Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 04:33:11 -0800 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 23 Message-ID: <30FB9B07.ABD322C@FreeBSD.org> References: <4d530a$qdl@sunb.ocs.mq.edu.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0b5 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1-STABLE i386) To: Jonathon Earnshaw TIDSWELL <jont@mpce.mq.edu.au> Jonathon Earnshaw TIDSWELL wrote: > It occured to me that an additional flag to pkg_add, --inplace, which forced > the package to be added in place would make life easier and that as it is It's actually already implemented, but as an option in the package's packing list (PLIST) file. If you have an @extract-in-place directive in the file, it will extract the package directly according to the PREFIX. Unfortunately, we've not actually USED this option in any of the packages! :-) I agree that emacs would be a good candidate. > would be well served if they had digital signatures available. > It then becomes (yet another) extension to pkg_add to check digital signatures. Well, if you'd like to hack on it.. :-) Seriously, I've basically abandoned the existing package tools. They are `temporary buildings' that have been inhabited for far too long. :) I'll fix bugs, but I'm not overly keen on adding features. I'd like to finish the next generation package tools instead sometime, whenver that might be.. -- - Jordan Hubbard President, FreeBSD Project