From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Apr 23 20:10:48 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from tomts6-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts6.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC35D37B41C for ; Tue, 23 Apr 2002 20:10:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from shall.anarcat.dyndns.org ([65.94.187.200]) by tomts6-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.04.05 201-253-122-122-105-20011231) with ESMTP id <20020424031041.CED11881.tomts6-srv.bellnexxia.net@shall.anarcat.dyndns.org> for ; Tue, 23 Apr 2002 23:10:41 -0400 Received: from lenny.anarcat.dyndns.org (lenny.anarcat.dyndns.org [192.168.0.4]) by shall.anarcat.dyndns.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A919F64 for ; Tue, 23 Apr 2002 23:10:00 -0400 (EDT) Received: by lenny.anarcat.dyndns.org (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Tue, 23 Apr 2002 23:09:37 -0400 Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 23:09:37 -0400 From: The Anarcat To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: [resend] packaging base (was: /etc/defaults/rc.conf theory) Message-ID: <20020424030937.GC323@lenny.anarcat.dyndns.org> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [this thread is still alive? i'll spice it up a bit then] On Tue Apr 23, 2002 at 05:31:39PM -0700, Michael Sierchio wrote: > Mike Meyer wrote: > > >You deleted the critical comment I made. If you want to help make > >everything a package, the libh project is always looking for people. > > I'm confused -- you say 'libh,' I say 'Tcl sandbox' ?? Is there > another libh project? I won't comment on that comment, since I don't clearly understand it, but I can say one thing: You don't need libh to package the base system. And actually, it would be a good thing if people started thinking about packaging the base system apart from libh. The main issues I see about packaging the base system is [1] how plists are to be handled and [2] how configurations files are to be handled. [1] is annoying. The way the ports collection deals with it is to create meta-data via the pkg-plist file. I'm not sure it would be an acceptable solution for base. [2] is almost dealt with properly with mergemaster. A. -- Why bother building more nukes until we use the ones we already have? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message