[CFT] packaging the base system with pkg(8)
David Chisnall
theraven at FreeBSD.org
Wed Apr 20 15:09:01 UTC 2016
On 20 Apr 2016, at 15:53, Paul Mather <paul at gromit.dlib.vt.edu> wrote:
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> Arguably, a packaged base will make it easier to help people, because it makes more explicit the dependencies of different parts of the system. It's been my experience that the interactions and impact of the various /etc/src.conf settings are not entirely well known, at least to end-users.
In particular, with libxo output from pkg, we can get a machine-readable detailed dump of all of the base system packages installed and provide a single ‘system dump’ command that includes this, relevant information from dmesg, and so on for bug triaging.
David
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