[HEADSUP] TinyBSD and ports applications

[Jean Milanez Melo]

Hello,

I have completly redone the routines for third party applications
install, I thought that initial way of doing things as Jeremied had
idealized was not very good, and I decided to make it better.

Now what I have do works this way:

The TinyBSD user will populate the conf/<image type>/tinybsd.ports file
listing the port name (in category/port) he wants to be installed on his
tinybsd system, just like:

category/application

say, for example:

www/mini_httpd

So based on this information tinybsd will have the path for the port,
will cd to that directory, check for the package name with "make -V
PKGNAME" and later, run pkg_info to check from its exit code wether the
port is installed or not.

If not locally installed, tinybsd will "make install" this port in the
local system, else (it already locally installed) tinybsd will skip to
missing_dir function.

On missing_dir function it checks for all directories which are not
automatically generated from BSD.local.dist, if the directory does not
exist it will "mkdir -p" it under /usr/local PREFIX on TinyBSD workdir,
creating on the TinyBSD image the necessary directories hierarchy.

Later it goes to copy_ports function where it checks for the
applications the port installs, with pkg_info, and updates a listing
excluding all things unecessary to a an embedded system, say, all data
installed under www,doc,share,include,man (which just makes no sense
existing on an embedded system, and would only demand useless storage
space). This listing will be called /tmp/ports.files, and will contain
all files that need to be added to the tinybsd system the user is building.

Later, copy_libraries function will copy all necessary libraries to the
image as well, just like the main idea behind the whole TinyBSD.

Finally, deinstall_ports will deinstall the port from the local system
if and only if it was not installed. It the port was already installed,
obviously tinybsd won't remove it from the local system.

I believe this is the most efficient way to handle third parties
applications on embedded system. At least the easiest way for the users.
They can always, of course add or remove binaries or modules themselves,
but now we have a subsystem on tinybsd which does the hard work.

Julian's just committed the patch and i would like to hear some feedback 
from you.

This latest patchset is fully tested. I built some tinybsd systems from
it today.

About TinyBSD documentation, we are updating it on tinyBSD website 
regarding everything that is new, and will soon sgml it.

- Jean