From owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org Thu Jan 28 00:54:22 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 767AFA6FB77 for ; Thu, 28 Jan 2016 00:54:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jmaloney@pcbsd.org) Received: from barracuda.ixsystems.com (mail.ixsystems.com [69.198.165.135]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "*.ixsystems.com", Issuer "Go Daddy Secure Certificate Authority - G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 60C0A10C2 for ; Thu, 28 Jan 2016 00:54:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jmaloney@pcbsd.org) X-ASG-Debug-ID: 1453942459-08ca04766a02be0002-XDYc8F Received: from [10.0.1.13] (ip72-209-162-1.ks.ks.cox.net [72.209.162.1]) by barracuda.ixsystems.com with ESMTP id geuouCFCQW7Jzexb (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Wed, 27 Jan 2016 16:54:20 -0800 (PST) X-Barracuda-Envelope-From: jmaloney@pcbsd.org X-Barracuda-AUTH-User: jmaloney@pcbsd.org X-Barracuda-Apparent-Source-IP: 72.209.162.1 Subject: Re: Packaging the FreeBSD base system with pkg(8) To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-ASG-Orig-Subj: Re: Packaging the FreeBSD base system with pkg(8) References: <20160127223323.GG98557@FreeBSD.org> From: Joe Maloney Message-ID: <56A96706.8040306@pcbsd.org> Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2016 18:55:34 -0600 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20160127223323.GG98557@FreeBSD.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Barracuda-Connect: ip72-209-162-1.ks.ks.cox.net[72.209.162.1] X-Barracuda-Start-Time: 1453942460 X-Barracuda-Encrypted: ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 X-Barracuda-URL: https://10.2.0.41:443/cgi-mod/mark.cgi X-Virus-Scanned: by bsmtpd at ixsystems.com X-Barracuda-BRTS-Status: 1 X-Barracuda-Spam-Score: 0.00 X-Barracuda-Spam-Status: No, SCORE=0.00 using global scores of TAG_LEVEL=1000.0 QUARANTINE_LEVEL=1000.0 KILL_LEVEL=8.0 tests= X-Barracuda-Spam-Report: Code version 3.2, rules version 3.2.3.26519 Rule breakdown below pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2016 00:54:22 -0000 Awesome. Thanks for the update, and info Glen. It looks like I will be subscribing to another list tonight! Joe Maloney On 01/27/16 16:33, Glen Barber wrote: > As many know, work has been in progress for quite some time to provide > the ability to package and upgrade the FreeBSD base system using pkg(8). > The majority of the initial implementation has provided much of the core > functionality to make this possible, however much work still needs to be > done. > > Over the past few weeks, there have been several inquiries on if this > work is still targeted for the 11.0-RELEASE, as well as the status of > the project branch (base/projects/release-pkg). > > The answer to the first question is: Yes. This is still targeted for > 11.0-RELEASE, which was one of the requirements during discussion of the > new support model announced early last year [1]. > > The status of the in progress work is a bit more complex to answer in > a short email, but work on packaging the FreeBSD base system is indeed > ongoing, and has been my primary focus over the past several weeks. > > I am finishing an initial list of outstanding items that need to be > resolved before the project branch can feasibly merged back to head, > which I will send to the new freebsd-pkgbase@ mailing list. People > interested in discussion surrounding this topic are urged to subscribe: > > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-pkgbase > > Finally, I want to personally thank Baptiste Daroussin for all of his > tireless efforts to get us to the point we are at now. Without his > ideas and insights, as well as ensuring pkg(8) contained the necessary > functionality, we would not be anywhere close to completing this work > for the 11.0-RELEASE. > > [1] > https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-announce/2015-February/001624.html > > Thanks. > > Glen >