Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2016 14:20:04 -0400 From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@csail.mit.edu> To: gljennjohn@gmail.com Cc: freebsd-pkgbase@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Packaging the FreeBSD base system with pkg(8) Message-ID: <22277.21332.334610.759440@khavrinen.csail.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <20160406182134.246c7fcd@ernst.home> References: <20160127223323.GG98557@FreeBSD.org> <5703805A.7090204@harmless.hu> <14CD9D09-A32E-46ED-96CA-296FC04B8506@FreeBSD.org> <20160405122249.19419b9f@ernst.home> <alpine.GSO.1.10.1604051342010.26829@multics.mit.edu> <20160406182134.246c7fcd@ernst.home>
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<<On Wed, 6 Apr 2016 18:21:34 +0200, Gary Jennejohn <gljennjohn@gmail.com> said: > On Tue, 5 Apr 2016 13:42:48 -0400 (EDT) > Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@MIT.EDU> wrote: >> On Tue, 5 Apr 2016, Gary Jennejohn wrote: >> >> > Will there be an option not to merge? I never update /etc when >> > I do installworld because what I have works for me and I see no >> > need to make any changes to a working system. >> >> And you expect your system to continue working after a new system user is >> added? >> > Yes, because these are mentioned in UPDATING and I add them by hand. The whole impetus for "pkg for base" is that doing things by hand doesn't scale when you have more than N=$smallnum machines (or VMs or containers). If you're doing this stuff by hand, you can keep on doing "make installworld" -- that's still going to be supported. -GAWollman
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