From owner-freebsd-security Thu Nov 29 13:54:44 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.org (lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CD1F37B405 for ; Thu, 29 Nov 2001 13:54:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA10065; Thu, 29 Nov 2001 14:54:12 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20011129145159.00afd050@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 14:52:27 -0700 To: The Anarcat From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: OT: package management (was: Re: Updating ssh) Cc: Jay Keller , freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20011129192731.GA513@shall.anarcat.dyndns.org> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20011128151923.041d0710@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20011128151923.041d0710@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 12:27 PM 11/29/2001, The Anarcat wrote: >I must admit that while I agree that the distinction between /usr and >/usr/local must be kept, there is a problem with the way the base system >is laid out from installation. > >We have no record of base system installed files as we have for third >party packages. > >And there is a solution: we have a package management suite, we should >use it to package the base system. I really do like this idea. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message