streaming packages (was: ipkg questions)

Russell Nelson writes:

> What about parsing the tarfile by hand, and insisting that a .ipk have
> the package-control archive occur first? Or does the tar file format
> have its own EOF indicator? In which case, you could do something
> like this:
>
> wget -o - http://example.com/file.ipk | tar xfOz | (tar xfz - ; tar xfz -)

Russell,

The essential problem is that ipkg does some work after reading the
control file, but before installing the data files. So, streaming both
of these in a single bundle will not work.

That is, unless we send both of them twice. But, no, I'm not really
suggesting we do that.

-Carl
Received on Thu Aug 30 07:08:59 2001