Re: Why pkg(8) is NOT bootstrapped in PKGBASE install by default?

On September 17, 2025 3:27:58 AM GMT+03:00, Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com> wrote:
>On 9/16/25 16:57, Mark Millard wrote:
>> Colin Percival <cperciva_at_tarsnap.com> wrote:
>>> I'm planning on adding pkg to the pkgbase repository on disc1 and dvd1.
>> 
>> So: memstick too?
>
>Yes.  "memstick" contains exactly the same bits as "disc1" -- the only
>difference is how it boots.  And for that matter, any modern system should
>work just fine with the "disc1" image on a USB disk; we might get rid of
>"memstick" in 16 since it's pointless duplication.
>

that would mean that people who sometimes slightly modify installers now need to make their own custom full installer images?
at minimum one needs to extract it

maybe not even bad i think...

but i'm surprised that it's memstick that goes first and not discs. except longer shelf life (nearly forever if you press it) and being physically readonly, i don't know how many installs are done from *actual* cd(-r) / dvd(-r). sometimes you don't even have reader nor writer nor blanks. MODERN hw, right?