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

From: Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd_at_quip.cz>
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2016 15:39:08 +0100
Slawa Olhovchenkov wrote on 03/11/2016 15:05:
> On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 02:58:17PM +0100, Miroslav Lachman wrote:
>
>> Slawa Olhovchenkov wrote on 03/11/2016 14:31:
>>> On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 02:20:59PM +0100, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 04:10:56PM +0300, Slawa Olhovchenkov wrote:
>>>>> On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 01:05:11PM +0100, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
>>
>> [...]
>>
>>>>> Case of only a few monolitic packages is essentiality simple then case
>>>>> of 1000 combined packages.
>>>> pkg info -a on one diff with pkg info -a on the other
>>>> for the full content: pkg info -a --raw on both end and diff them.
>>>>
>>>> That should cover your case, no?
>>>
>>> No, that may cause a much false positive: slight different versions,
>>> unimportant packets and etc. In 1000 packets this give to many noise.
>>
>> If you don't need version numbers, you can list just package names
>> pkg query %n
>> or package origins
>> pkg query %o
>
> currently:
>
> [...]
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>> Anything else is on your side and even if I understand your complaints
>> (and I agree with some of them) I don't thing it will change anything on
>> the future of packaged base.
>> So it is better to spend our time on working local solution to new
>> problem. It has some pros and some cons and I hope the pros will
>> outweigh cons.
>
> I am don't talk 'this is imposible'. I am talk 'this is awkward'.
> What purpose for paclaging base system? packaging for packaging? Or
> packaging for simplify and comfortably management, maintance and
> upgrade?

I hope it will simplified updates. Freebsd-update was so unreliable and 
unpredictable for me that I returned to the "make buildkernel && make 
buildworld" on builder machine and "make installkernel && make 
installworld" through NFS on destinations. And it has some cons too - 
recompile whole system and reinstall on all machines instead of just 
some small package. It has it's impact on size of backups too.

Miroslav Lachman
Received on Fri Mar 11 2016 - 13:39:12 UTC

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