Packaging of base system

[Jose M Rodriguez]

El Martes, 10 de Mayo de 2005 13:14, Brian Candler escribió:
> On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 12:55:42AM -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> > As this comes up all the time, I'd say just do it.  People here
> > will talk your ear off.
>
> OK. I am just a bit dubious about starting a large chunk of work,
> only to be told later "we're not going to commit this, the consensus
> here is we don't want to do it this way because X / Y / Z"
>
> Incidentally, do we have a current status on this?
> http://people.freebsd.org/~kientzle/libarchive/libpkg.3.txt
>
> This looks like a pre-requisite for turning the base system into
> packages.
>
> Regards,
>
> Brian.
>

If you are serious about this, take a look into how this is done in 
NetBSD.

Allthough this is not active in the stock build, the work is near 
complete and fine grained.

--
  josemi