On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 12:46:39PM +0000, Thomas Mueller wrote: > from Glen Barber: > > > As many know, work has been in progress for quite some time to provide > > the ability to package and upgrade the FreeBSD base system using pkg(8). > > The majority of the initial implementation has provided much of the core > > functionality to make this possible, however much work still needs to be > > done. > > (snip) > > Would the base system all be one package?
multiple packages with meta packages to represent the whole base so you have the best of both world :) > > In Linux, everything is part of a package, even the kernel, but something > comparable to FreeBSD or NetBSD base system would have many packages. > > Will it be possible to upgrade base system with portmaster or portupgrade, > and would that be better than the current procedure in UPDATING? No but one will be able to simply run pkg upgrade (and built himself the packages) > > Would pkg then be able to show a package's required shared libraries > including shared libraries from the base system? I was recently stung by pkg > not showing required shared libraries from the base system. Yes, but but real usage of it would happen in a second step because of many rought edges to be deal with. but yes the information would be available see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Br6izhH5P1I and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7px6ktoDAI for a bigger view of what happened (note that some detail my have change a bit, the overall remains the same) Best regards, Bapt > > I just subscribed to freebsd-pkgb...@freebsd.org . > > Tom > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-pkgb...@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-pkgbase > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-pkgbase-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
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