CFT: FreeBSD Package Base

[kris at ixsystems.com]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-pkgbase at freebsd.org <owner-freebsd-
> pkgbase at freebsd.org> On Behalf Of Garrett Wollman
> Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2019 1:29 PM
> To: Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert at cschubert.com>
> Cc: freebsd-pkgbase at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: CFT: FreeBSD Package Base
> 
> > Which begs the question, if we're simply replacing freebsd-update and
> > it does most of what we want why the extra effort?
> 
> Anyone who isn't using a completely stock make.conf/src.conf is already
> replacing freebsd-update, and it would be much *less* effort to have only
> one mechanism to distribute software rather than two.
> 
> I'd like to have a better installation process, too, because that would make it
> much easier to redeploy servers.  But most of our servers are file servers
> with unique user data so "redeploy" is not a relevant operation much of the
> time.
> 
> -GAWollman
> 
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This was a big motivator for us to merge base pkgs into poudriere. In my career I've written 4 build systems that all do some variation of buildworld/kernel + poudriere + create ISO + create updates. I'm sure plenty of other FreeBSD consumers have done the same, and frankly its getting old. At least now I'm down to poudriere + create ISO only. 

And my sympathies to anybody still having to use freebsd-update as part of their custom updating process 😉


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