Re: CFT: FreeBSD Package Base

From: Kris Moore <kris_at_ixsystems.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2019 09:56:48 -0400
On Mon, Apr 29, 2019 at 9:53 AM Warner Losh <imp_at_bsdimp.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Mon, Apr 29, 2019 at 7:50 AM Lev Serebryakov <lev_at_freebsd.org> wrote:
>
>> On 29.04.2019 16:39, kris_at_ixsystems.com wrote:
>>
>> >
>> > This should be very doable with this package base. We use it for
>> FreeNAS in a similar manner, where we disable a couple dozen things from
>> base, resulting in a much more stripped down userland-base package. By
>> default we also break out the doc/tests/debug bits into their own
>> userland-* packages, for same reasons, to keep image nice and small.
>> >
>>  Ok, after
>>
>>
>> # tar tf FreeBSD-HEAD-pkgbase-x64-20190426.iso | grep All
>> dist/FreeBSD:13:amd64/latest/All
>> dist/FreeBSD:13:amd64/latest/All/ca_root_nss-3.43_1.txz
>> dist/FreeBSD:13:amd64/latest/All/jq-1.6.txz
>> dist/FreeBSD:13:amd64/latest/All/kernel-20190420203550_1.txz
>> dist/FreeBSD:13:amd64/latest/All/oniguruma-6.9.1.txz
>> dist/FreeBSD:13:amd64/latest/All/pkg-1.10.5_5.txz
>> dist/FreeBSD:13:amd64/latest/All/userland-20190420203550.txz
>> dist/FreeBSD:13:amd64/latest/All/userland-base-20190420203550_7.txz
>> dist/FreeBSD:13:amd64/latest/All/userland-docs-20190420203550.txz
>> dist/FreeBSD:13:amd64/latest/All/userland-lib32-20190420203550.txz
>> #
>>
>>  I was under impression, that there is only 3 userland packages, not
>> 100+ :-)
>>
>
> It's a tradeoff... 100+ packages is super granular, but also a PITA to
> manage. 3 package installs quite a bit faster than the 100+ packages due to
> a large fixed cost in pkg per package, but isn't granular enough to tailor
> for NanoBSD systems.
>
> Warner
>
>

Correct. Its all in the FAQ, there are about a dozen available packages:

https://trueos.github.io/pkgbase-docs/#which-base-packages-are-available

Really you only need a few of them on typical system,
userland(meta-pkg)/userland-base/userland-docs/kernel


> --
>> // Lev Serebryakov
>>
>>
Received on Mon Apr 29 2019 - 11:57:01 UTC

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