Date: Mon, 09 May 2005 07:00:48 -0500 From: Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> To: Brian Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Packaging of base system Message-ID: <427F50F0.3080905@centtech.com> In-Reply-To: <20050509114410.GA2184@uk.tiscali.com> References: <20050509114410.GA2184@uk.tiscali.com>
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Brian Candler wrote: > I'm not sure if this is the right place to post, so please point me > elsewhere if there's a better one. > > Recent discussions here mentioned the installation/upgrading/packaging of > the FreeBSD base system. > > Question: is there any fundamental reason why this could not now be moved to > using the 'package' system rather than just chunked tarballs, in time for > FreeBSD 6? [..snip large amounts of stuff..] I think this is a good move, however, how would things like portupgrade determine the difference between a port and a base system pkg? I suppose one could throw the right ignore concoctions into the HOLD_PKGS array in pkgtools.conf. I suppose this would break 5.x->6.x binary upgrades, however I'm not sure that's safe anyhow. :) Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology A lost ounce of gold may be found, a lost moment of time never. ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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