From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Dec 17 20:05:54 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA10296 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 17 Dec 1998 20:05:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from n4hhe.ampr.org (tnt3-95.HiWAAY.net [208.147.146.95]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA10289 for ; Thu, 17 Dec 1998 20:05:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dkelly@n4hhe.ampr.org) Received: from n4hhe.ampr.org (localhost.ampr.org [127.0.0.1]) by n4hhe.ampr.org (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id WAA00492 for ; Thu, 17 Dec 1998 22:05:40 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dkelly@n4hhe.ampr.org) Message-Id: <199812180405.WAA00492@n4hhe.ampr.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: FreeBSD-Hackers@FreeBSD.ORG From: David Kelly Subject: Re: Back to sysinstall In-reply-to: Message from Mike Smith of "Thu, 17 Dec 1998 19:00:05 PST." <199812180300.TAA00859@dingo.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 22:05:39 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mike Smith writes: > > > > It wouldn't be such a bad idea if *everything* was a package (including > > the kernel) leaving sysinstall to be a glorified pkg_add. SGI's Irix is > > this way. Am not sure Solaris doesn't do similar. > > We're working on this. It presents some unique problems when you > attempt to interact with "make world", but there is yet hope. "make world" would built the packages, then using the currently installed package database would only update installed packages. Of course it would refuse to do anything if there are missing packages needed as dependancies. I am quite familiar as a user of SGI's "inst" and "swmgr" (GUI to inst). Have spent *far* more time using swmgr to install/delete than with sysinstall. Don't know much of the details of creating an SGI package. Have been thinking of touching up my (unpublished) SGI port of FreeBSD's tcopy and rolling it up in an SGI inst-able package. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message