nosh version 1.14

[Jonathan de Boyne Pollard]

Lars Engels:
> It sound very useful. Do you provide virtual machine images or ISOs so 
> interested people can give it a try easily? 

I'm not sure that I agree with that use of the adverb "easily". (-:

nosh isn't a whole operating system.  It's a toolset, to form part of, 
or to use on, an operating system.  At the moment, you install it in the 
fashion that the FreeBSD Handbook calls "typical". There's a .tar.bz2 
source archive.  It unpacks into a self-contained build tree, where the 
binaries are built.

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http://homepage.ntlworld.com./jonathan.deboynepollard/Softwares/nosh/source-package.html

Installing is a little hairy, still.  "package/export /usr/local" does 
most of it on my system, but there are still some manual steps that 
follow that, especially in the separate-/usr-volume case.

The Debian Linux side of things is a little ahead in this regard. One of 
the reasons that I mentioned that the packaging was a "big deal" on the 
Linux side in an earlier message was that in this version (and even more 
so in version 1.15 that I have under development) I've finally got 
maintainer scripts doing the automatic native nosh preset/disable of 
service bundles to such an extent that an entire system almost installs 
from packages.

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http://homepage.ntlworld.com./jonathan.deboynepollard/Softwares/nosh/debian-binary-packages.html

I hope to catch up with that on the BSD side.  But I need to learn BSD 
packaging first.  (-:

And as I said, there's that little matter of 80-some things that need 
dealing with.

That said, if you need pointers on what to do after "package/compile && 
sudo package/export /usr/local" here is a good place to ask.  You can 
stop after "package/compile" and view "guide/index.html" in your 
favourite WWW browser and read the man pages located under "manual/".