[Bug 288295] bsdinstall does not bootstrap etcupdate database for pkgbase installations

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=288295

--- Comment #5 from ivy@FreeBSD.org ---
after thinking about this a bit more:

- i don't like the idea of bootstrapping etcupdate from the FreeBSD-src
package.  this package is quite large, and most users who choose this option
will prefer to get /usr/src from Git anyway, so at least for online
installations you'd end up downloading the src package, installing it, then
removing it and replacing it with a Git repo.  that seems wasteful.

- we can't put the etcupdate db on the installation media because that means it
won't be available for e.g. `bsdinstall jail` on an online system.

i think i'm actually in favour of having a package like
"FreeBSD-etcupdate-bootstrap", as long as it's not installed by default;
currently that's difficult because every package has to be in a set, but we
could fix that.  the non-pkgbase bsdinstall process would then be something
like:

- install FreeBSD-set-base
- install FreeBSD-etcupdate-bootstrap
- depending on what the etcupdate package actually includes, possibly copy the
bootstrap files into the actual database
- delete /var/db/pkg
- delete the bootstrap files (assuming we decide to copy them into place from
the package)

this could all be handled automatically by bsdinstall when the user selects a
non-pkgbase installation.

does this seem like a reasonable approach, or have i completely misunderstood
the problem here?

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