Packaging the FreeBSD base system with pkg(8)

[Slawa Olhovchenkov]

On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 11:33:42AM -0500, Garrett Wollman wrote:

> <<On Fri, 29 Jan 2016 04:05:24 +0300, Slawa Olhovchenkov <slw at zxy.spb.ru> said:
> 
> >> [I wrote:]
> >> through the intermediate source releases just as you would do now.
> >> All you need to do is preserve the last release package set you build
> >> from each stable branch.
> 
> > I am talk about SUDDENLY discovered outdated setup.
> 
> Well, modern best practice says "burn them to the ground".  That's an
> unsatisfying answer, but it is widely accepted that this is not a
> situation worth turning somersaults for.

I am understund. But not always.