current state of the binup project

"GERARDO ENRIQUE PAREDES MANCIA" <[email protected]> Sat, 19 Oct 2002 02:55:10 -0600
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.binary-update
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I would like to know which is the current state of this project, if its s=
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being worked or is abandoned.=20

I also have some doubts about what the components in the current codebase=
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for example, the current incarnation of updated only holds metadata for t=
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releases, profiles, files and such; my question is if updated is gonna=20
continue just being a meta-data server and the client will handle the act=
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downloading and installing of the binary distributions using libfetch in =
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same style that pkg_install(1) and friends do? If so, how are you going t=
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handle the binary packages? are they going to be the same chunks that the=
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distribution cd's hold?.=20

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