Awesome. Thanks for the update, and info Glen. It looks like I will be subscribing to another list tonight! Joe Maloney On 01/27/16 16:33, Glen Barber wrote: > 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. > > Over the past few weeks, there have been several inquiries on if this > work is still targeted for the 11.0-RELEASE, as well as the status of > the project branch (base/projects/release-pkg). > > The answer to the first question is: Yes. This is still targeted for > 11.0-RELEASE, which was one of the requirements during discussion of the > new support model announced early last year [1]. > > The status of the in progress work is a bit more complex to answer in > a short email, but work on packaging the FreeBSD base system is indeed > ongoing, and has been my primary focus over the past several weeks. > > I am finishing an initial list of outstanding items that need to be > resolved before the project branch can feasibly merged back to head, > which I will send to the new freebsd-pkgbase_at_ mailing list. People > interested in discussion surrounding this topic are urged to subscribe: > > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-pkgbase > > Finally, I want to personally thank Baptiste Daroussin for all of his > tireless efforts to get us to the point we are at now. Without his > ideas and insights, as well as ensuring pkg(8) contained the necessary > functionality, we would not be anywhere close to completing this work > for the 11.0-RELEASE. > > [1] > https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-announce/2015-February/001624.html > > Thanks. > > Glen >Received on Wed Jan 27 2016 - 23:54:22 UTC
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