Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2016 13:47:54 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> To: Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org> Cc: FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: NanoBSD (Was Re: [CFT] packaging the base system with pkg(8)) Message-ID: <CANCZdfoKount-N__nRV8HRJbpMY98GZoY7nu5JmGy5AJL50Cfw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.64.1604230946560.27238@sea.ntplx.net> References: <E1asbZj-0003Ra-Qs@rmm6prod02.runbox.com> <76093.1461096570@critter.freebsd.dk> <5716AD65.8070007@shrew.net> <BF66EA01-E073-45F0-8F9E-22D57E8871B0@bsdimp.com> <alpine.OSX.2.00.1604221915370.15755@minnie.bitsea.ca> <CANCZdfpH4W0eE9DDC3mwMmJ69styoT4fMPhNYUiiqLQ5a5ROoA@mail.gmail.com> <Pine.GSO.4.64.1604230946560.27238@sea.ntplx.net>
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On Sat, Apr 23, 2016 at 7:51 AM, Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org> wrote: > [CC trimmed] > > On Fri, 22 Apr 2016, Warner Losh wrote: > >> >> I personally will be refraining from engaging further. I plan on seeing >> what gaps there are by adding support to NanoBSD for packages. I'll be >> busy >> with that. In talking to Glen and others, we've already identified a few >> easy gaps to fill. Once they've done that, I'll get going on NanoBSD with >> the goal to be able to use it to build a bootable system of any >> architecture from packages with no root privs. I expect to find issues, >> but >> I don't expect to find any issue that's intractable. I expect after the >> issues are resolved, the end product will be better for everybody. >> > > Thank you for working on NanoBSD. Do you think it would be possible > to add support for optionally building dump(8) images instead of dd? What do you mean by that, exactly? It would be relatively easy to add a step that runs dump on the _.disk.image file and squirrel that away. Last orders the code currently calls it, I believe. Is it something as simple as this, or is there some more complexity that I'm failing to understand or grasp? Warner
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