On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 05:56:31PM +0000, David Chisnall wrote: > On 28 Jan 2016, at 17:45, NGie Cooper <yaneurab...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Also, consider that you're going to be allowing upgrades from older RELEASE > > versions of the OS which might be using a fixed copy of pkgng -- how are > > you going to support that? > > I believe that the plan is to promote the pkg tool somewhat closer to the > base system. Upgrades will do the same sort of thing that they do currently > for ports: > > 1. First check if the version of pkg is the latest > 2. If not, upgrade it
upgrade to latest version build for older release? > 3. Do the real upgrade > > The package for package is simply a tarball. It may be advantageous to > separate the pkg and pkg-static binaries into different packages, so that pkg > can always install pkg-static and pkg-static can always update pkg. > > There is no guarantee that the pkg tool from X.Y can install any packages > from X+n.Y.m other than the pkg-static binary, which can then upgrade the > rest of the system. > > The provision of pkg-static prevents us from being in the situation > that I encountered trying to upgrade a Debian system (and ending up > with a mess requiring a full reinstall) where apt needed a newer > glibc and the glibc package needed a newer apt to install it. We > will always provide a pkg-static for every supported branch that can > be installed by any earlier version of pkg (because it’s just > extracting a single-file archive - and in the absolute worst case > you can do this by hand) and can install newer packages. Even pkg-static build for 10.x can be fail to run on previos release. Builded svn-static on 9.x fail to run on 6.x, as result I build svn-static on 6.x (and run on 6.x-10.x). _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
