Date: Thu, 14 May 2015 22:10:16 +0100 From: Jonathan de Boyne Pollard <J.deBoynePollard-newsgroups@NTLWorld.com> Cc: FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: nosh version 1.14 Message-ID: <55550F38.1070203@NTLWorld.com> In-Reply-To: <20150511114354.GK53149@e-new.0x20.net> References: <54430B41.3010301@NTLWorld.com> <54B86FD5.3090203@NTLWorld.com> <554E53EF.4080600@NTLWorld.com> <554E5EEA.7020901@NTLWorld.com> <554E7EB6.3000200@NTLWorld.com> <20150511114354.GK53149@e-new.0x20.net>
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Lars Engels: > It sound very useful. Do you provide virtual machine images or ISOs so > interested people can give it a try easily? I'm not sure that I agree with that use of the adverb "easily". (-: nosh isn't a whole operating system. It's a toolset, to form part of, or to use on, an operating system. At the moment, you install it in the fashion that the FreeBSD Handbook calls "typical". There's a .tar.bz2 source archive. It unpacks into a self-contained build tree, where the binaries are built. * http://homepage.ntlworld.com./jonathan.deboynepollard/Softwares/nosh/source-package.html Installing is a little hairy, still. "package/export /usr/local" does most of it on my system, but there are still some manual steps that follow that, especially in the separate-/usr-volume case. The Debian Linux side of things is a little ahead in this regard. One of the reasons that I mentioned that the packaging was a "big deal" on the Linux side in an earlier message was that in this version (and even more so in version 1.15 that I have under development) I've finally got maintainer scripts doing the automatic native nosh preset/disable of service bundles to such an extent that an entire system almost installs from packages. * http://homepage.ntlworld.com./jonathan.deboynepollard/Softwares/nosh/debian-binary-packages.html I hope to catch up with that on the BSD side. But I need to learn BSD packaging first. (-: And as I said, there's that little matter of 80-some things that need dealing with. That said, if you need pointers on what to do after "package/compile && sudo package/export /usr/local" here is a good place to ask. You can stop after "package/compile" and view "guide/index.html" in your favourite WWW browser and read the man pages located under "manual/".
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