Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2012 16:39:17 +0200 From: Tijl Coosemans <tijl@coosemans.org> To: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: pkgng suggestion: renaming /usr/sbin/pkg to /usr/sbin/pkg-bootstrap Message-ID: <503F7B15.6050607@coosemans.org> In-Reply-To: <201208271224.20329.jhb@freebsd.org> References: <97612B57-1255-4BB3-A6D3-FC74324C6D67@FreeBSD.org> <20120826200246.GC3535@grinsebacke.dyndns.org> <503A8921.6010609@FreeBSD.org> <201208271224.20329.jhb@freebsd.org>
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This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig955F759C31B3875E62113914 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 27-08-2012 18:24, John Baldwin wrote: > On Sunday, August 26, 2012 4:37:53 pm Doug Barton wrote: >> The problem is that we don't really support the idea of things in the >> base magically deleting themselves. >> >> As I have said in previous messages, the bootstrapping problem is bein= g >> overblown by several orders of magnitude. For newly installed systems >> where pkg is the default, /usr/local/bin/pkg will be installed. So the= re >> is no bootstrapping problem. >> >> For already-installed systems who wish to switch to pkg, they can >> install from /usr/ports, or use the pkg bootstrap tool in the base. >> Given that they will be intentionally making this change, and there wi= ll >> be instructions written up on how to do this which include the >> bootstrapping step, once again this is a non-issue. >> >> The whole idea of having every call to /usr/local/sbin/pkg pass throug= h >> /usr/sbin/pkg in order to help a tiny minority of users with a one-tim= e >> bootstrapping issue is just plain ludicrous. >=20 > I agree. Even if we keep /usr/sbin/pkg, we will presumably want to rem= ove > it from the base in a year or so via 'make delete-old', etc. Given tha= t, > I'm not sure we need it there in the first place. What if you pkg_delete \* or rm -rf /usr/local? Do you have to "reboot" pkg then? --------------enig955F759C31B3875E62113914 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (FreeBSD) iF4EAREIAAYFAlA/ex4ACgkQfoCS2CCgtivxHgD/SzCo2swJ4pxWJ9S4TpJAiQ7j 3WbB5f8OF5lTKgnGq58A/1B+VSNEYD4LnzOL09zay7yuAoUkgp3VRvlR8aQwNXNR =NWBN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig955F759C31B3875E62113914--
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