Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 22:02:21 +0200 From: Jose M Rodriguez <josemi@freebsd.jazztel.es> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Cc: Brian Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com> Subject: Re: Packaging of base system Message-ID: <200505102202.21970.josemi@freebsd.jazztel.es> In-Reply-To: <20050510193535.GA214@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au> References: <20050509114410.GA2184@uk.tiscali.com> <1115735657.20796.15.camel@tomcat.kitchenlab.org> <20050510193535.GA214@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au>
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El Martes, 10 de Mayo de 2005 21:35, Peter Jeremy escribi=F3: > Overall, I think that packaging the base system is a good idea for > end-users. In theory, it means that upgrades can be handled by a > wrapper around portupgrade and the pkg_* tools can be used to verify > system consistency. OTOH, I'm not sure that it is of much benefit to > developers - unless you replace "make world" with portupgrade, the > base system package information will be out-of-date following the > first installworld. It might be useful asking for opinions in some > of the "end user" lists as well as here. > > On Tue, 2005-May-10 07:34:16 -0700, Bruce A. Mah wrote: > >Honestly I'm not sure if I like this idea or not. My most recent > >experience with a fully packaged system is with RH/FC Linux > >distributions and many times I feel like I'm in a twisty little maze > > of RPMs, all different. You seem to be proposing a more > > coarse-grained packaging, which I think is more workable. > > OTOH, Solaris and Tru64 are fully packaged and this seems to work - > though both are (probably too) fine grained. I suspect that fine > grained makes the dependencies easier to manage, but in the case of > both Solaris and Tru64, working out whether you want a particular > package or not is virtually impossible. If you do go the > fine-grained approach, it may be worthwhile having a group of > "dependency" packages that are gathered in a section headed "you > probably don't want to individually select these packages - they will > be installed > automatically if required". > =46or the packaging problem (not the update), take a look into: http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/distrib/sets/ =2D- josemi
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