On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 08:10:50AM -0400, John Baldwin wrote: > On Friday, August 31, 2012 5:59:10 am Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 01:02:06PM -1000, Doug Barton wrote: > > > On 08/30/2012 07:32 AM, John Baldwin wrote: > > > > On Thursday, August 30, 2012 1:10:24 pm Chris Rees wrote: > > > >> On 30 Aug 2012 18:03, "John Baldwin" <jhb_at_freebsd.org> wrote: > > > >>> > > > > > > I agree with John on all counts here. Further, the idea of a > > > self-installing package, at least for the pkg stuff itself, addresses > > > the issue that someone else brought up about how to handle installation > > > of pkg by the installer for a new system. > > > > I like the idea of also providing a self-installing package, and it seems really > > easy to do, so I'll try to see what I can do in this area I'll wrote a PoC in 5 > > minutes which looks pretty good, this could also be a very simple and easy way > > to integrate into bsdinstaller. > > > > I'll do work in that direction. > > > > Still it doesn't solve the problem of boostrapping pkgng in a fresh new box, > > because the user may not know where to download the pkg-setup.sh. > > I do think that is something bsdinstall should be able to handle, and I would > certainly want bsdinstall to include a dialog that says "do you want to install > the package manager?" > > -- > John Baldwin > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ports_at_freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe_at_freebsd.org" Of course this is being worked on by dteske_at_ on his bsdconfig scripts, so yes in anycase the bsdinstaller will end up with a boostrap dialog to install pkgng. regards, Bapt
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