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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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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?


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