Changes between Version 19 and Version 20 of Obsolete/MovedToTree/PackageManagement/TODO

Timestamp:

Dec 12, 2012, 9:55:02 PM (12 years ago)

Author:

bonefish

Comment:

Add Package/package repository format section.

Obsolete/MovedToTree/PackageManagement/TODO

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   * Currently the stage 1 boot loader requires the stage 2 boot loader to be in the file `system/haiku_loader` on the BFS boot volume. Since the stage 2 boot loader itself should also be subject to package management, that means it currently the package manager has to extract it from the system package. It would be nicer, if the stage 1 boot loader could load the stage 2 boot loader directly from the system package. Since the space for the stage 1 boot loader is too limited to deal with the HPKG format (< 1 KB in total), the format would probably have to be extended to provide an easily accessible bootstrap code. Alternatively additional space for the stage 1 boot loader would have to be found/made in the BFS on-disk format.
 
+=== Package/package repository format ===
+  * Add support for repository keys (public/private) and package signing/check sums, so that it is possible to verify that data retrieved from a repository have not been tempered with.
+  * Support compression for the whole heap instead of just for individual file data. This should improve compression rates especially for packages containing many small files with only a small drawback regarding removing/replacing files in packages (potentially the whole heap would have to be recompressed).
+
 === Miscellaneous ===
   * Modify Expander to use a directory instead of the `expander.rules` file. This way a package (like xz-utils or p7zip) can contribute a single file with the rules for its tools.