From: bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery) Subject: Re: Proposal: E series for the SLS distribution Date: Mon, 9 Aug 1993 01:56:46 GMT
In article <1993Aug5.125507.1611@tctube.spb.su> mbravo@tctube.spb.su (Michael E. Bravo) writes:
>Concerning extra programs, it seems that if developers would follow the
>packaging rules (even current draft ones), it would be quite equivalent to
>creating special disk series. Then anyone would be able to just 'sysinstall'
>new package instead of ungzip/untar/chmod-ing it... Fixperms package is a
The free ObjectBuilder distribution from ParcPlace (thanks Werner!) is set up
this way, as the "o" series. I think we'll need multiletter series names soon
if everyone goes this way, though.
>sysinstall procedure. I think it would be nice to take a look at, say,
>Solaris 2.0 packaging standards, and try to create something similar.
I started to do this, but Peter Macdonald quashed it by refusing to use any
other solution. ---Of course, he had a reason: sysinstall is a shell script,
so it's compact. Even stripped and ld -N'ed, the SVR4 pkg commands are likely
to be sizeable. But we really need the functionality (collision detection,
for example). Maybe sysinstall could be made a shell script mini-pkgadd for
the installation and a real pkg system could be installed as part of the "a"
series.
++Brandon
-- Brandon S. Allbery kf8nh@kf8nh.ampr.org bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org