From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sun Dec 10 12:36:35 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2E04E8B7C8 for ; Sun, 10 Dec 2017 12:36:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from baho-utot@columbus.rr.com) Received: from cdptpa-cmomta03.email.rr.com (cdptpa-outbound-snat.email.rr.com [107.14.166.227]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "Client", Issuer "CA" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id AE5116F6F2 for ; Sun, 10 Dec 2017 12:36:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from baho-utot@columbus.rr.com) Received: from raspberrypi.bildanet.com ([65.186.81.207]) by cmsmtp with ESMTP id O0riexumZmG8pO0rleWtOO; Sun, 10 Dec 2017 12:37:57 +0000 Received: from [192.168.1.143] by raspberrypi.bildanet.com with esmtp (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1eO0qM-0008Be-QF for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 10 Dec 2017 12:36:30 +0000 Subject: Re: New packaging approach To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: From: Baho Utot Message-ID: <07f48e07-ce70-7a26-ea19-fd389375afb4@columbus.rr.com> Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2017 07:36:25 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US X-CMAE-Envelope: MS4wfOwOkFPvEW6vyAFbb6WjAQq4D9XY+0LoW74K311RJHxT/huC+XBDEfgSyANKLglsJlPI7H6yAmB2YDu/6wduuHBEQ7trvrO3YzS/hz6Po9ZXm7yyOD/6 rwWRGDMM5RWqtEOdykU0Wh8o4tBr0/KrlkR0cZnBrKBenBpMQpcI26WISb6L+fP7o6JZITeZcRiOYF596ZboDaKOld2RdZ0H914= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.25 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.25 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2017 12:36:36 -0000 On 12/10/2017 12:33 AM, DTD wrote: > > On Sat, 9 Dec 2017, Polytropon wrote: > >> However, I am not sure how the new packaging approach will handle >> this. As you might have read, pkg will be used for installing and >> upgrading OS files in the future, so there will not be the big >> difference "freebsd-update" and "pkg update" / "pkg upgrade". > > Where can I read about this? If this leads to dependency issues > similar to those encountered with desktops, my reaction is more of 'oh > s--t' rather then 'oh boy'. Back to the days when the odd or even > versions numbers were for those of us (read me) who do not track > Stable for similar reasons. > The way the packaging of base is currently being done will*guarantee a great level of OH SHIT. *