Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2012 08:56:24 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper <yanegomi@gmail.com> To: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org> Cc: Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org>, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Tijl Coosemans <tijl@coosemans.org>, freebsd-ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>, Chris Rees <utisoft@gmail.com> Subject: Re: pkgng suggestion: renaming /usr/sbin/pkg to /usr/sbin/pkg-bootstrap Message-ID: <CAGH67wSAKv6xBE=6VciUT7BkGkj6vm3vkqr6%2BF7qu8Pgtn-vDQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20120831095910.GQ64447@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net> References: <97612B57-1255-4BB3-A6D3-FC74324C6D67@FreeBSD.org> <201208301255.42473.jhb@freebsd.org> <CADLo83-X2NoNNDU-R_EmznBsR-vE4TW_rG9xXmkRWnCydN2kXg@mail.gmail.com> <201208301332.58112.jhb@freebsd.org> <503FF0EE.2020605@FreeBSD.org> <20120831095910.GQ64447@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net>
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On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 2:59 AM, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org> 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. ... > 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. A bit self-referential, but why not do something similar to what I proposed on http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=120111+0+current/freebsd-ports ? Thanks, -Garrett
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