Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 23:09:37 -0400 From: The Anarcat <anarcat@anarcat.dyndns.org> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: [resend] packaging base (was: /etc/defaults/rc.conf theory) Message-ID: <20020424030937.GC323@lenny.anarcat.dyndns.org>
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[this thread is still alive? i'll spice it up a bit then] On Tue Apr 23, 2002 at 05:31:39PM -0700, Michael Sierchio wrote: > Mike Meyer wrote: > > >You deleted the critical comment I made. If you want to help make > >everything a package, the libh project is always looking for people. > > I'm confused -- you say 'libh,' I say 'Tcl sandbox' ?? Is there > another libh project? I won't comment on that comment, since I don't clearly understand it, but I can say one thing: You don't need libh to package the base system. And actually, it would be a good thing if people started thinking about packaging the base system apart from libh. The main issues I see about packaging the base system is [1] how plists are to be handled and [2] how configurations files are to be handled. [1] is annoying. The way the ports collection deals with it is to create meta-data via the pkg-plist file. I'm not sure it would be an acceptable solution for base. [2] is almost dealt with properly with mergemaster. A. -- Why bother building more nukes until we use the ones we already have? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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