Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2024 18:33:30 +0000 From: bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org To: rc@FreeBSD.org Subject: [Bug 282324] pkgbase: Utilities used by FreeBSD-rc-14.1 RC Scripts require dragging in bloated utilities Message-ID: <bug-282324-20181-I6L4kC4Tys@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/> In-Reply-To: <bug-282324-20181@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/> References: <bug-282324-20181@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/>
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https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3D282324 --- Comment #3 from Jeff Kletsky <jeff+freebsd@wagsky.com> --- I agree that most of the service-specific rc files would make more sense to install/update/remove along with the service they manage. I'm not sure where to draw the line but as a user, I would expect things li= ke mounting file systems, changing run levels, and running the rc scripts for runtime services to be from the FreeBSD-base system or the FreeBSD-runtime package. I acknowledge that the range of utilities used by third-party rc scripts is virtually unlimited. If "all" were to be included it would be worse than bringing in the whole of FreeBSD-utilities along with the likes of TCL, Per= l, and Python 2. A reasonable compromise for me would be to have the "most common" and highly useful utilities available in FreeBSD-runtime. FreeBSD-rescue is an option = for some, but requires a change of PATH for the rc execution on reduced-footpri= nt systems. Conceivably this could be done automatically, but I haven't thought that far ahead. As a starting point for those "most common" utilities that seem to not to be present in FreeBSD-runtime, I came up with the list below from my limited experience. `awk` isn't something that I use myself, but I have seen used. `false` is arguable though I'd expect it there if the `|| true` construct is available. `od` and `hexdump` have shown up for loading firmware or setting registers = for network devices, at least in other OSes I've worked with. `su` is sometimes needed to assume a service's user `nologin` is present in the distributed user data I'm personally OK with needing to install the compression/decompression utilities with FreeBSD-rescue, though would prefer if they were available as -utilities-compression or something like that or by-algorithm packages. /usr/bin awk basename cut dirname false hexdump od su touch tr true uniq wc yes /usr/sbin chgrp -- rescue chown -- rescue chroot -- rescue daemon nologin (and its symlink as /sbin/nologin) bz, gz, xz, zstd compression and decompression -- rescue realpath -- runtime sort -- runtime find -- runtime tar -- runtime --=20 You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.=
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