Re: NanoBSD (Was Re: [CFT] packaging the base system with pkg(8))

On Sun, 24 Apr 2016, Warner Losh wrote:

> On Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 6:34 AM, Daniel Eischen <deischen_at_freebsd.org>
> wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 23 Apr 2016, Warner Losh wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, Apr 23, 2016 at 7:51 AM, Daniel Eischen <deischen_at_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?
>>>
>>
>> Perhaps I'm missing something, but when last_orders() is called,
>> isn't the disk already unmounted and 'mdconfig -d -u' already
>> run?
>
>
> dump 0f - _.disk.image > ~/foo.dump
>
> worked for me just now. Is there some reason that it wouldn't work for
> you in last orders if you tossed a NANO_DISKIMGDIR in front of it
> and last orders would work for you. You could even pipe it into some
> compression program...

Huh, I didn't know you could do that on the image file.
I feel dumb, now ;-)

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