Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2012 14:41:13 +0100 From: Chris Rees <utisoft@gmail.com> To: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> Cc: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org>, Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org>, Tijl Coosemans <tijl@coosemans.org>, freebsd-ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>, freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: pkgng suggestion: renaming /usr/sbin/pkg to /usr/sbin/pkg-bootstrap Message-ID: <CADLo839V=EFWs5wchk9v_QwZ11bQVp9bfKpRM%2BUZebDUcCLLDA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201208310810.50725.jhb@freebsd.org> References: <97612B57-1255-4BB3-A6D3-FC74324C6D67@FreeBSD.org> <503FF0EE.2020605@FreeBSD.org> <20120831095910.GQ64447@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net> <201208310810.50725.jhb@freebsd.org>
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On 31 Aug 2012 13:15, "John Baldwin" <jhb@freebsd.org> wrote: > > On Friday, August 31, 2012 5:59:10 am Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 01:02:06PM -1000, Doug Barton wrote: > > > On 08/30/2012 07:32 AM, John Baldwin wrote: > > > > On Thursday, August 30, 2012 1:10:24 pm Chris Rees wrote: > > > >> On 30 Aug 2012 18:03, "John Baldwin" <jhb@freebsd.org> wrote: > > > >>> > > > > > > I agree with John on all counts here. Further, the idea of a > > > self-installing package, at least for the pkg stuff itself, addresses > > > the issue that someone else brought up about how to handle installation > > > of pkg by the installer for a new system. > > > > I like the idea of also providing a self-installing package, and it seems really > > easy to do, so I'll try to see what I can do in this area I'll wrote a PoC in 5 > > minutes which looks pretty good, this could also be a very simple and easy way > > to integrate into bsdinstaller. > > > > I'll do work in that direction. > > > > Still it doesn't solve the problem of boostrapping pkgng in a fresh new box, > > because the user may not know where to download the pkg-setup.sh. > > I do think that is something bsdinstall should be able to handle, and I would > certainly want bsdinstall to include a dialog that says "do you want to install > the package manager?" Putting aside my previous emotional red herring, this is a great idea; I don't see how it's different from a base binary, but OK. I don't see the need to be prompted-- it's not like the base system doesn't have other larger amounts of software that is useless to many. Can't it just go in? Chrishome | help
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