Expanding on NO_ROOT: Categorizing installed files

[Sean Fagan]

We've been looking at some significant changes to how we distribute and update FreeNAS; one of the things I've done is take the NO_ROOT build changes, and expand upon them to have categories.

I'd like to say I went for minimal changes here, but mostly what I was going for was minimal work on my part.  However, this seems to mostly work; the METALOG that gets generated has lines such as

	./bin/cat type=file uname=root gname=wheel mode=0555 size=11520 category=base

and I've written a python script that will take that METALOG, and create PKGNG-style packages from it.  (This may be more useful for things like "category=dev", or "secure".)  I did have to change xinstall a bit to handle this, and I also changed how it handled hard links for the metalog.

Any comments on this?  More importantly, any interest in it?

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