Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2021 14:41:51 -0700 From: Alan Somers <asomers@freebsd.org> To: Juraj Lutter <otis@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-git <freebsd-git@freebsd.org>, Gordon Tetlow <gordon@freebsd.org>, Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: git transition plan for base/user/cperciva/freebsd-update-build Message-ID: <CAOtMX2jiofi3J%2BjcA=dHcQmx_FqdyE3AsoAKfYtk8bHt4cLVGg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <27283DDB-E304-4840-A4E1-1DAF16C7731C@FreeBSD.org> References: <CAOtMX2hMRhzntJ9rChyuzpUdRDT0qDzkSSY5RPLdS0Dfs6HU9g@mail.gmail.com> <CDA1B7C7-3D99-4C32-AA93-02D0FECA624F@FreeBSD.org> <CAOtMX2gDqPw%2BxkOyi1kEYADcKWQuR8Aqp=nEOQj5qR3b71GNhw@mail.gmail.com> <27283DDB-E304-4840-A4E1-1DAF16C7731C@FreeBSD.org>
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On Fri, Jan 29, 2021 at 2:21 PM Juraj Lutter <otis@freebsd.org> wrote: > > > On 29 Jan 2021, at 22:06, Alan Somers <asomers@freebsd.org> wrote: > > > > On Fri, Jan 29, 2021 at 1:28 PM Juraj Lutter <otis@freebsd.org> wrote: > > > > > > > On 29 Jan 2021, at 21:12, Alan Somers <asomers@freebsd.org> wrote: > > > > > > What is the plan to transition the > > > https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/user/cperciva/freebsd-update-build/ > code? > > > It's not really a branch of src; it's more like an independent project. > > > Will it be getting its own repository? > > > > This is a good question. The other question is if it could be simplified > somehow, > > for use cases where users do not want/need patches and only want to > build updates for > > their running systems for regular maintenance. > > > > For users who don't need patches? Do you mean as a substitute for the > old: > > > > $ cd /usr/src > > $ svn up > > $ make buildworld > > $ make buildkernel > > > > Or by "don't need patches", do you mean building updates based on > tracking stable/12 instead of downloading the security advisory patches? I > don't think the former makes sense. For just one system, building world > and kernel by hand is much easier than using freebsd-update-build. > > Yes, I mean building updates based on tracking stable/12 (a rolling? > release, sort of). > For just one system, buildworld seems OK, but for more systems it may be a > burden. > Yeah, that could work. The updates might be very large, though. > > Have you also considered pkgbase? > I've never tried it. Last I heard it still had some rough edges. For example, if a new package were added to the base system, pkgbase wouldn't automatically install it.
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