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

[Kris Kennaway]

On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 03:07:27PM -0400, Mike Meyer wrote:
> In <20070511184259.GA23483 at xor.obsecurity.org>, Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org> typed:
> > The point is that the real problem is: "how do you arrange the bits on
> > disk", not "how do you wrap that in a package system".  Until you
> > figure out a workable on-disk arrangement for the files, questions
> > about packaging are not relevant.  And it seems that option 1 is the
> > only workable one in practise (unless you have some other idea), which
> > can easily be achieved today with a couple of hours of kernel hacking.
> 
> There are clearly other workable ideas - as I said, the linux folks
> managed to make it work. But it's not an easy problem. I certainly
> wouldn't suggest rebuilding the packaging system to deal with this,
> except as part of a larger effort. On the other hand, since people are
> working on the ports/package system (I see port/pkg database and some
> ports infrastructure work in the current SoC projects list), not
> keeping this goal in mind would seem to be a bit short-sighted. I
> wouldn't be surprised if your option #1 could benefit from this as
> well.

But you said you were interested in working on it...so what is your
idea?

Kris