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From: Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [pre-GLEP] Gentoo binary package container format
Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2018 14:17:26
Message-Id: CAGfcS_kE4RoDSucAVrn_yJmJMiT+ph866MNq5fB9zNHJ=8qD0A@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [pre-GLEP] Gentoo binary package container format by Roy Bamford
1 On Sat, Nov 17, 2018 at 9:05 AM Roy Bamford <neddyseagoon@g.o> wrote:
2 >
3 > Does this proposal allow for installing the payload without
4 > the use of the Gentoo package manager from some random
5 > distro being used as a rescue media?
6 >
7
8 Yes, it is a tarball of tarballs. There would be an extra step, but a
9 vanilla tarball containing the files to be extracted could be
10 extracted as long as you have tar and the appropriate decompressor
11 (not specified and could change, but I imagine it will remain bzip2
12 for now).
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16 Rich