From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A21CC138334 for ; Sat, 17 Nov 2018 14:17:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C8E08E0AA7; Sat, 17 Nov 2018 14:17:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pf1-f182.google.com (mail-pf1-f182.google.com [209.85.210.182]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 66024E0A9A for ; Sat, 17 Nov 2018 14:17:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-pf1-f182.google.com with SMTP id v9-v6so12754111pff.2 for ; Sat, 17 Nov 2018 06:17:22 -0800 (PST) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date :message-id:subject:to; bh=DZfX7nCAFF3qCaJm/5dFCl2UZHh3sKN9hgTyWEft8xo=; b=Ay3WXpnTlOwIgV4S2bi00oSI06PEjtExiDU+Quz0h4FfmzjwlT1CeRUpdkBEXCA6VK kSWrWh7gN2yupZkpPz1cAtMeYY2xFWzQfXFPCYptWQvnjgBX3FwFfg3EBp3W29XYnBsD jrtUPpgFBh2vOwfgCQMzhHOzE0gZYA+jct1uVOiDJGjqUhslhfamFKBZAEn7DnejObrv lrKcOIk+wf9Pe3MEw4XI13/lZLKIzKXzNbHYcal+Y3gg/KmTwbZlZAcQCd4borcQSqYI zaMl8Ve4Bfmw84Ukj/5kJeIl3kwVML0rJL61ttOiAc4cLVyINXjw5aQiJK2d4DKytkbX x/7g== X-Gm-Message-State: AGRZ1gKpZrOQnOqEPGyLJfQzYDRx0oFCAgMWfc0OZi8HplAo4ag1/XfS JaA9K0GQ3IBc/CCdax+haAjVgVpQW41P8J4YoI+UGZ2I X-Google-Smtp-Source: AJdET5fiPoMPuwoWY3q6WCUZ23x8Si5SYmkl0X6fxwXSAPwP7oEZRrOeFicfeng9dYGFHqR8LKOA+bG8Hl5pHINDbqY= X-Received: by 2002:a63:6445:: with SMTP id y66mr14102529pgb.250.1542464240807; Sat, 17 Nov 2018 06:17:20 -0800 (PST) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1542453700.31427.2.camel@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: From: Rich Freeman Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2018 09:17:09 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [pre-GLEP] Gentoo binary package container format To: gentoo-dev Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Archives-Salt: 8900a0c1-0d29-4be3-9911-b273b4ca6ab5 X-Archives-Hash: 65cf0c619ca22c718ac233820356ebfa On Sat, Nov 17, 2018 at 9:05 AM Roy Bamford wrote: > > Does this proposal allow for installing the payload without > the use of the Gentoo package manager from some random > distro being used as a rescue media? > Yes, it is a tarball of tarballs. There would be an extra step, but a vanilla tarball containing the files to be extracted could be extracted as long as you have tar and the appropriate decompressor (not specified and could change, but I imagine it will remain bzip2 for now). -- Rich