Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2012 12:27:41 -0700 From: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> To: Ian Lepore <freebsd@damnhippie.dyndns.org> Cc: ports@freebsd.org, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org>, current@freebsd.org, Jilles Tjoelker <jilles@stack.nl>, Steve Wills <swills@freebsd.org>, CyberLeo Kitsana <cyberleo@cyberleo.net> Subject: Re: pkgng suggestion: renaming /usr/sbin/pkg to /usr/sbin/pkg-bootstrap Message-ID: <503A78AD.6010402@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <1346008112.1140.76.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> References: <97612B57-1255-4BB3-A6D3-FC74324C6D67@FreeBSD.org> <20120824081543.GB2998@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net> <50380269.6020003@FreeBSD.org> <20120825000148.GF37867@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net> <50396113.3080607@cyberleo.net> <20120826122649.GA8995@stack.nl> <20120826125846.GD37534@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net> <503A6D4B.9070606@FreeBSD.org> <20120826185810.GB42842@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net> <1346008112.1140.76.camel@revolution.hippie.lan>
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On 08/26/2012 12:08, Ian Lepore wrote:
> Would this get better if the bootstrap tool were named pkg and were
> installed on a fresh system at /usr/local/sbin, so that it in effect
> replaces itself with the real thing, and has no need to leave a
> forwarding stub in /usr/sbin ?
>
> Maybe it could rename itself to /usr/local/sbin/pkg-bootstrap as part of
> replacing itself, so that you could re-bootstrap your way out of a
> problem later.
That's certainly creative thinking, but I'm still queasy about 2
commands with the same name that do 2 different things. And having it
rename itself adds to the confusion down the road.
Having a simple pkg bootstrapping tool in the base is a good idea. But
the functionality needs to be extremely limited so that we don't
increase the security exposure; and so that we don't end up in a
situation where a bug fix for something in the base limits our ability
to innovate with pkg in the ports tree.
Doug
--
I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do
something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what
I can do.
-- Edward Everett Hale, (1822 - 1909)
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