Date: Fri, 20 May 2016 00:03:33 +0200 From: Michael Gmelin <grembo@freebsd.org> To: Glen Barber <gjb@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-pkgbase@freebsd.org, re@freebsd.org, secteam@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Followup on packaging base with pkg(8) Message-ID: <EEC40769-518A-4314-A036-7387E53E3335@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <CAKE2PDtqkusw592tKuR9hk7mN8g_oRovMS38YuMDuFy6ammoWA@mail.gmail.com> References: <20160519203126.GO3335@FreeBSD.org> <CAKE2PDtqkusw592tKuR9hk7mN8g_oRovMS38YuMDuFy6ammoWA@mail.gmail.com>
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> On 19 May 2016, at 23:29, jungle Boogie <jungleboogie0@gmail.com> wrote: >=20 >> On 19 May 2016 at 13:31, Glen Barber <gjb@freebsd.org> wrote: >> Given the state of this highly-disruptive change to the base system, we >> need to take the best interest of the FreeBSD community into primary >> consideration, as a whole. >>=20 >> We have arrived at the difficult decision to treat packaged base as >> a "beta" feature for 11.0-RELEASE, and continue with freebsd-update(8) >> as the primary binary upgrade mechanism for this release. >=20 >=20 > This is a very sensible solution. > I think we can all agree we'd rather have something known to work over > an unknown, lightly tested highly friction change. >=20 > Keep up the great work and rest easier knowing pkg will be a beta thing. := ) >=20 Same here, thank you so much for your hard work on something that will be a b= ig step forward and also for being realistic enough to not forcing things be= fore they're ready! - Michael
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