Packaging of base system

[Eric Anderson]

Brian Candler wrote:
> I'm not sure if this is the right place to post, so please point me
> elsewhere if there's a better one.
> 
> Recent discussions here mentioned the installation/upgrading/packaging of
> the FreeBSD base system.
> 
> Question: is there any fundamental reason why this could not now be moved to
> using the 'package' system rather than just chunked tarballs, in time for
> FreeBSD 6?
[..snip large amounts of stuff..]

I think this is a good move, however, how would things like portupgrade 
determine the difference between a port and a base system pkg?  I 
suppose one could throw the right ignore concoctions into the HOLD_PKGS 
array in pkgtools.conf.

I suppose this would break 5.x->6.x binary upgrades, however I'm not 
sure that's safe anyhow. :)

Eric


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Eric Anderson        Sr. Systems Administrator        Centaur Technology
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