Re: pkgng suggestion: renaming /usr/sbin/pkg to /usr/sbin/pkg-bootstrap

From: Tijl Coosemans <tijl_at_coosemans.org>
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2012 16:39:17 +0200
On 27-08-2012 18:24, John Baldwin wrote:
> On Sunday, August 26, 2012 4:37:53 pm Doug Barton wrote:
>> The problem is that we don't really support the idea of things in the
>> base magically deleting themselves.
>>
>> As I have said in previous messages, the bootstrapping problem is being
>> overblown by several orders of magnitude. For newly installed systems
>> where pkg is the default, /usr/local/bin/pkg will be installed. So there
>> is no bootstrapping problem.
>>
>> For already-installed systems who wish to switch to pkg, they can
>> install from /usr/ports, or use the pkg bootstrap tool in the base.
>> Given that they will be intentionally making this change, and there will
>> be instructions written up on how to do this which include the
>> bootstrapping step, once again this is a non-issue.
>>
>> The whole idea of having every call to /usr/local/sbin/pkg pass through
>> /usr/sbin/pkg in order to help a tiny minority of users with a one-time
>> bootstrapping issue is just plain ludicrous.
> 
> I agree.  Even if we keep /usr/sbin/pkg, we will presumably want to remove
> it from the base in a year or so via 'make delete-old', etc.  Given that,
> I'm not sure we need it there in the first place.

What if you pkg_delete \* or rm -rf /usr/local? Do you have to "reboot"
pkg then?


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