Nanobsd and packages
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Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2023 18:24:14 UTC
Up to stable/13 of about March this year - and for the last two decades or so - using packages in nanobsd(8) was pretty straight forward: you needed a directory with packages to install using the included 'cust_pkgng' helper function, and one of the packages had to be the 'pkg-x.y.z' package to bootstrap the package system during the nanobsd creation stage. Not anymore with stable/13.2 of about July 24 or later. I did not try to bisect to find out when and what changed. This is rather outside of my comfort zone so there may be a better way / better explanation, but these are my findings so far: - to bootstrap pkg(8) without resorting to the internet (which fails for me in a chroot environment) the associated package *must* be named 'pkg.txz'. Nothing else will do. - there cannot be a path in front of the package name, i.e. '/_.p/pkg.txz' as used by nanobsd(8) does not work anymore. - alas, nanobsd(8) cannot install packages in the old way as the bootstrapping fails. To get around this the following patch seems to work for me: diff --git a/tools/tools/nanobsd/defaults.sh b/tools/tools/nanobsd/defaults.sh index 45d9fe44c650..9a654e6d9d5b 100755 --- a/tools/tools/nanobsd/defaults.sh +++ b/tools/tools/nanobsd/defaults.sh @@ -774,6 +774,7 @@ cust_pkgng ( ) ( echo "FAILED: need a pkg/ package for bootstrapping" exit 2 fi + mv ${NANO_PACKAGE_DIR}/${_NANO_PKG_PACKAGE} ${NANO_PACKAGE_DIR}/pkg.txz # Mount packages into chroot mkdir -p ${NANO_WORLDDIR}/_.p @@ -783,7 +784,7 @@ cust_pkgng ( ) ( trap "umount ${NANO_WORLDDIR}/dev; umount ${NANO_WORLDDIR}/_.p ; rm -xrf ${NANO_WORLDDIR}/_.p" 1 2 15 EXIT # Install pkg-* package - CR "${PKGCMD} add /_.p/${_NANO_PKG_PACKAGE}" + CR "cd /_.p ; ${PKGCMD} add pkg.txz" ( # Expand any glob characters in pacakge list -- stefan