From owner-freebsd-pkgbase@freebsd.org Wed Sep 12 13:57:26 2018 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-pkgbase@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EFA41094187 for ; Wed, 12 Sep 2018 13:57:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from madpilot@FreeBSD.org) Received: from smtp.freebsd.org (smtp.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::24b:4]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.freebsd.org", Issuer "Let's Encrypt Authority X3" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2A4FC83A28; Wed, 12 Sep 2018 13:57:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from madpilot@FreeBSD.org) Received: from marvin.madpilot.net (host145-124-dynamic.19-79-r.retail.telecomitalia.it [79.19.124.145]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) (Authenticated sender: madpilot/mail) by smtp.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 96F2614567; Wed, 12 Sep 2018 13:57:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from madpilot@FreeBSD.org) Subject: Re: Proposal for making the kernel packages preserve old copies To: Brad Davis , freebsd-pkgbase@freebsd.org Cc: Kyle Evans , Allan Jude References: <1536694085.2759965.1504668272.4564BA99@webmail.messagingengine.com> From: Guido Falsi Openpgp: preference=signencrypt Autocrypt: addr=madpilot@FreeBSD.org; prefer-encrypt=mutual; keydata= xsBNBE+G+l0BCADi/WBQ0aRJfnE7LBPsM0G3m/m3Yx7OPu4iYFvS84xawmRHtCNjWIntsxuX fptkmEo3Rsw816WUrek8dxoUAYdHd+EcpBcnnDzfDH5LW/TZ4gbrFezrHPdRp7wdxi23GN80 qPwHEwXuF0X4Wy5V0OO8B6VT/nA0ADYnBDhXS52HGIJ/GCUjgqJn+phDTdCFLvrSFdmgx4Wl c0W5Z1p5cmDF9l8L/hc959AeyNf7I9dXnjekGM9gVv7UDUYzCifR3U8T0fnfdMmS8NeI9NC+ wuREpRO4lKOkTnj9TtQJRiptlhcHQiAlG1cFqs7EQo57Tqq6cxD1FycZJLuC32bGbgalABEB AAHNHkd1aWRvIEZhbHNpIDxtYWRAbWFkcGlsb3QubmV0PsLAeQQTAQgAIwIbAwIeAQIXgAUL CQgHAwUVCgkICwQWAgMBBQJS79AgAhkBAAoJEBrmhg5Wy9KTc0kH/RO64ORBlTbTHaUaOj8F Je5O5NU2Pt9Cyt5ZWBRvxntr1zPTJGKRPS9ihlIfqT4ZvEngQGp57EUyFbCpI0UWasTerImM tt5WACnGmCzUTB39UXx8Oy4b1EgWeTJQ747e/F1mQLXTNa6ijRBE9fYlTb4gAkPN88/wVV9v 3PZozKLTg16ghBzHM/P7Lk8L7clPEZChX1FTa/6eSt3nvzfCuTMZbBPJF/ph+q1KyPqRgVfh tyhu5dvgMoPz/ni41IfeSrkJTD5RXzdyGR9q4Z1NYeBsLkRjC4LxKAP5KqUsvlOUjKvO1byj ApYdMarol+IGkaSk9e3zVYAJkWKjn/ni8XbOwU0EUxB7QQEQAKFhrDceoPdK/IHDSmoj6SQY isvM7VdhcleS7E9DoEAVt7yMbf6HbbMVTTY6ckvwTWQssywLBXNVqxgc4WLJjzfUhgef+WE7 5M3+WFYlOVQLGZY/zEVgma1raYnOHNAOzeHLDmEXjbZP6vGAeDyBbGfQPpE7qGYZ7ubeT3Xw QO+PklcCrvOPj2ZPcAxGNS2xVU/LzONqCrJqLMJSIcCdsbiSP4G5PnDFHtMokaTY6OEr8OEQ fOAerhcHUa/z7Uu8YtmaqKH+QGkE/WEgaRqSiTnv0JOTD+DxehaqvoKPPZ++2NpCZMHB2i6A /xifmQwEiIjEXtcueBRzkNUQkxhqZyS13SrhocL9ydtaVPBzZatAEjUDDEJmAMLVFs45qfyh MiNapHJo2n3MW/E5omqCvEkDdWX/en3P7CK2TemeaDghMsgkNKax/z0wNo5UZCkOPOz0xpNi UilOVbkuezZZNg65741qee2lfXhQIaZ66yT7hphc/N/z3PIAtLeze4u1VR2EXAuZ2sWAdlKC NTlJMsaU/x70BV11Wd/ypnVzM68dfdQIIAj1iMFAD/lXGlEUmKXg5Ov2VQDlTntQoanCYrAg +8CttPzjrydgLZFq3hrtQmfc0se5yv1WHS69+BsUOG09RvvawUDZxUjW19kyeN9THaNRgow3 kSuArUp6zSmJABEBAAHCwF8EGAEIAAkFAlMQe0ECGwwACgkQGuaGDlbL0pMN5wgA4bCkX/qw EVC06ToeR6C2putmSWQMgpDaqrv65Hubo+QGmg2P4ewTYQQ4g6oYWS03qHxqVVWhKz7FjfrV +dH8qbCLfSgIcvdBha7ayGZVrsiuMLKGbw36fcmkZPpSDOfHcP0XH8Z+u9CWj0xUkTxAlZ/7 i6gYSUpG2JWNtdmE/X8VVEyXusCLwy0K0BI60A/4dRTIX3C4QKrJ3ZbUXegz70ynjHf+lQMZ 9IZKASoRMuS5FozPQh6abvmwZEPdf5I9riUElzvHrqJ8Bx0t3Pujdoth+yNHpnBxrtO8LkQd rQ58P0SwcaIX33T2U9pG8bhu5YVR88FQ8OQ0cEsPBpDncg== Message-ID: Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2018 15:57:22 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1536694085.2759965.1504668272.4564BA99@webmail.messagingengine.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-pkgbase@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.27 Precedence: list List-Id: "Packaging the FreeBSD base system." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2018 13:57:26 -0000 On 9/11/18 9:28 PM, Brad Davis wrote: > On Tue, Sep 11, 2018, at 9:58 AM, Guido Falsi wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I've finally cleaned up a local patch I've been using and sent it as a >> code review: >> >> https://reviews.freebsd.org/D17119 >> >> >> As stated in the subject this patch uses a deinstall script to make the >> kernel packages copy the kernel directory to kernel.old when >> deinstalling. This leaves a fallback kernel on the system when >> upgrading, which I find quite useful. >> >> I intentionally made it mimic the "make installkernel" behavior. >> >> I did not add any reviewers in the phabric review since I don't know who >> I should ask, but I'd like to get some feedback about this. > > Hi Guido, > > Good idea, but there is a different plan in the works. Because potentially there is the desire to keep many kernels around. So we are going to name all the kernels kernel.version and the loader I believe already knows how to find them. Allan? Kyle? Do you know what the status is here? I was not aware of this! Definitely better than my hack. > > See the kernel section here: https://wiki.freebsd.org/PkgBase#Project_goals_and_additional_unresolved_issues > > If you would like to help work on this I would appreciate it. If you want to take a look at making pkg understand that multiple versions of the same pkg can be installed, that would be great! I Can try to have a look, but this will require some time to study the pkg codebase in detail. Is there someone already looking at this? someone I should talk to? -- Guido Falsi