Base Package Origins

[Renato Botelho]

> On Apr 26, 2016, at 16:53, Glen Barber <gjb at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 03:47:14PM -0400, Kris Moore wrote:
>> On 04/26/16 03:40 PM, Renato Botelho wrote:
>>>> On Apr 26, 2016, at 14:54, Kris Moore <kris at ixsystems.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> So, we're in the process of moving to package base for PC-BSD -CURRENT
>>>> images next month. The only real nit I'm seeing so far is that each
>>>> package has a origin of 'base'. Shouldn't that be unique for each
>>>> package? I.E. base/FreeBSD-<foo>
>>> Hi Kris,
>>> 
>>> We are working to move pfSense 2.4 development snapshots to 11 with base package as well
>>> 
>>> How are you dealing with files installed by distrib* targets? (/etc/rc, /etc/master.passwd, …)
>>> 
>> 
>> I've looked at a kludge to ship those bits as another .txz. Did you have
>> another method, or is this something we can expect fixed properly as a
>> package, I.E. FreeBSD-distrib-FOO.txz
>> 
> 
> One (other kludge) I was considering was automatically invoking
> etcupdate(8) on 'FreeBSD-runtime' installation, which should
> automatically populate /etc on a clean install, as well as keeping /etc
> updated as part of upgrades.
> 
> But, I *really* do not like that idea...

That was the only idea I had too. Why don’t you like it?

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Renato Botelho

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