[CFT] packaging the base system with pkg(8)

[Miroslav Lachman]

Slawa Olhovchenkov wrote on 03/11/2016 15:51:
> On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 03:39:08PM +0100, Miroslav Lachman wrote:

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>> recompile whole system and reinstall on all machines instead of just
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> I am proposed: patch packages (replaced or removed some files).
>
>> some small package. It has it's impact on size of backups too.
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> Size of backups?

We have differential backups - only modified files are backed up every 
night. If whole userland is replaced by "make installworld" or by 
extracting tar, then each file is backed up again.

Miroslav Lachman