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Date:      Fri, 31 Aug 2012 08:10:50 -0400
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Cc:        Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org>, Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org>, freebsd-ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>, Chris Rees <utisoft@gmail.com>, Tijl Coosemans <tijl@coosemans.org>
Subject:   Re: pkgng suggestion: renaming /usr/sbin/pkg to /usr/sbin/pkg-bootstrap
Message-ID:  <201208310810.50725.jhb@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20120831095910.GQ64447@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net>
References:  <97612B57-1255-4BB3-A6D3-FC74324C6D67@FreeBSD.org> <503FF0EE.2020605@FreeBSD.org> <20120831095910.GQ64447@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net>

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On Friday, August 31, 2012 5:59:10 am Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 01:02:06PM -1000, Doug Barton wrote:
> > On 08/30/2012 07:32 AM, John Baldwin wrote:
> > > On Thursday, August 30, 2012 1:10:24 pm Chris Rees wrote:
> > >> On 30 Aug 2012 18:03, "John Baldwin" <jhb@freebsd.org> wrote:
> > >>>
> > 
> > I agree with John on all counts here. Further, the idea of a
> > self-installing package, at least for the pkg stuff itself, addresses
> > the issue that someone else brought up about how to handle installation
> > of pkg by the installer for a new system.
> 
> I like the idea of also providing a self-installing package, and it seems really
> easy to do, so I'll try to see what I can do in this area I'll wrote a PoC in 5
> minutes which looks pretty good, this could also be a very simple and easy way
> to integrate into bsdinstaller.
> 
> I'll do work in that direction.
> 
> Still it doesn't solve the problem of boostrapping pkgng in a fresh new box,
> because the user may not know where to download the pkg-setup.sh.

I do think that is something bsdinstall should be able to handle, and I would
certainly want bsdinstall to include a dialog that says "do you want to install
the package manager?"

-- 
John Baldwin



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