New FreeBSD package system (a.k.a. Daemon Package System (dps))

[Yoshihiro Ota]

On Thu, 10 May 2007 22:03:22 -0400
Mike Meyer <mwm-keyword-freebsdhackers2.e313df at mired.org> wrote:

> In <20070511015156.GA77895 at xor.obsecurity.org>, Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org> typed:
> > On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 09:47:49PM -0400, Mike Meyer wrote:

> > > Personally, I'd still like LOCALBASE to move out of /usr/local. Maybe
> > > it's time to reconsider that.
> > Not gonna happen as a default, but you can change it on your systems
> > if you like.
> 
> Not very reliably.
> 
> 	<mike


I've done it about 1 year ago.
It is working very good.
When I encounter a problem with upgrading ports, I can rollback to old one by swapping a partition.

I put everything under /ports partition and use mount_nullfs.
Here is how it looks like:

% df | grep port
/dev/ad3s1e          5583486   3841966 1294842    75%    /ports
/ports/db/pkg        5583486   3841966 1294842    75%    /var/db/pkg
/ports/X11R6         5583486   3841966 1294842    75%    /usr/X11R6
/ports/local         5583486   3841966 1294842    75%    /usr/local
/ports/compat        5583486   3841966 1294842    75%    /usr/compat
/dev/md0.uzip         886686    391416  424336    48%    /usr/ports

Hiro