Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 22:05:39 -0600 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: FreeBSD-Hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Back to sysinstall Message-ID: <199812180405.WAA00492@n4hhe.ampr.org> In-Reply-To: Message from Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> of "Thu, 17 Dec 1998 19:00:05 PST." <199812180300.TAA00859@dingo.cdrom.com>
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Mike Smith writes: > > > > It wouldn't be such a bad idea if *everything* was a package (including > > the kernel) leaving sysinstall to be a glorified pkg_add. SGI's Irix is > > this way. Am not sure Solaris doesn't do similar. > > We're working on this. It presents some unique problems when you > attempt to interact with "make world", but there is yet hope. "make world" would built the packages, then using the currently installed package database would only update installed packages. Of course it would refuse to do anything if there are missing packages needed as dependancies. I am quite familiar as a user of SGI's "inst" and "swmgr" (GUI to inst). Have spent *far* more time using swmgr to install/delete than with sysinstall. Don't know much of the details of creating an SGI package. Have been thinking of touching up my (unpublished) SGI port of FreeBSD's tcopy and rolling it up in an SGI inst-able package. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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