Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2016 18:43:31 +0300 From: Slawa Olhovchenkov <slw@zxy.spb.ru> To: Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org> Cc: dan_partelly <dan_partelly@rdsor.ro>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [CFT] packaging the base system with pkg(8) Message-ID: <20160419154331.GH6614@zxy.spb.ru> In-Reply-To: <57164C58.8000802@freebsd.org> References: <571533B8.6090109@freebsd.org> <20160418194010.GX1554@FreeBSD.org> <57153E80.4080800@FreeBSD.org> <571551AB.4070203@freebsd.org> <5715E1E9.8060507@freebsd.org> <57164068.8080800@freebsd.org> <78fb431d2d9b568fd488fae51a1b5f23@rdsor.ro> <571643A8.9020702@freebsd.org> <d7fb31958a71fbb514ff90ba1ff927be@rdsor.ro> <57164C58.8000802@freebsd.org>
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On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 08:18:48AM -0700, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > 1) Graciously and rapidly accept steps forward and then contribute to > them. Anything else leaves you stagnant and worse for wear. > 2) Simple over complex. > 3) If something someone else did is working for someone, then copy it > and move on, don't waste a huge amount of your customer's time trying to > make something better until you are sure that just copying it will not > suffice. What is simple -- split base to 10 packages or split base to 800 packages? I think first. What need for succesufult moved forward after this? I think ability of spliting and mergering packages at upgrade. (clang-base => clang-base-c + clang-base-c++, for example. or clang-base-c + clang-base-c++ => clang-base). What need for security updates? I think ability to have file with common name and different content with multiple installed packages: base-11.0 contains /usr/sbin/ntpd base-11.0-CVE-1234 direct depends to base-11.0 and contains overlaped /usr/sbin/ntpd As result: few packages, compact security updates, ability to repackage base. Optionaly, ability to have packages with "dummy" content, for example no-base-ntp-11.0 have record (w/o actual content) about /usr/sbin/ntpd with size -791552 (negative size) and checksum of actual file, for removing some components. For this feature give ability to have "skins" packages, installed over main package.home | help
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