----- Forwarded message from Thomas Klausner <wiz@NetBSD.org> -----

On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 11:54:51AM -0800, Ben Collver wrote:
> Off-topic, but here is something you might find interesting.
> http://www.opengroup.org/publications/catalog/c701.htm
> 
> This is a POSIX standard for package management.  There is a new project to
> implement this under GPL that seems pre-alpha yet active.
> http://swbis.sourceforge.net/
> 
> HP-UX uses POSIX package management, and it would be fun, though a lot of
> work, to make pkgsrc use IEEE Std 1387.2-1995 (ISO/IEC 15068-2:1999) as its
> binary package format.

Looks interesting -- you might want to mail tech-pkg with this,
since I'm sure it interests more people.
 Thomas

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