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Date:      Thu, 4 Feb 2016 13:47:16 -0800
From:      Bryan Drewery <bdrewery@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org>, Glen Barber <gjb@freebsd.org>,  src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-projects@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r295280 - projects/release-pkg/release/packages
Message-ID:  <56B3C6E4.60907@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <56B3C34B.1080501@freebsd.org>
References:  <201602042120.u14LKQ2b026571@repo.freebsd.org> <56B3C34B.1080501@freebsd.org>

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On 2/4/2016 1:31 PM, Nathan Whitehorn wrote:
> 
> 
> On 02/04/16 13:20, Glen Barber wrote:
>> Author: gjb
>> Date: Thu Feb  4 21:20:26 2016
>> New Revision: 295280
>> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/295280
>>
>> Log:
>>    Add package files for libc, libedit, librtld_db, and libthr.
>>       libedit is needed for sh(1), which if updated before runtime,
>>    can cause undesirable behavior.
>>       For the rest, the installation order needs to be:
>>        1) librtld
>>     2) libc
>>     3) libthr
>>       The dependency listing and shilbs_required entries ensure this
>>    behavior.
> 
> Are we really planning to split up the system at this level of
> granularity? That seems like a huge regression from one of the main
> selling points of FreeBSD: that it is *not* split up at this level and
> forms a unified system.
> -Nathan
> 

You are jumping to conclusions. Splitting how files are *tracked in
metadata* changes nothing about what we are delivering in a release.

What level does freebsd-update track the system? It seems it is per-file.

This constant idea that splitting files in metadata is bad is hindering
progress greatly.

-- 
Regards,
Bryan Drewery


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