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

Daniel Eischen deischen at freebsd.org
Sat Apr 23 13:51:47 UTC 2016


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On Fri, 22 Apr 2016, Warner Losh wrote:
>
> I personally will be refraining from engaging further. I plan on seeing
> what gaps there are by adding support to NanoBSD for packages. I'll be busy
> with that. In talking to Glen and others, we've already identified a few
> easy gaps to fill. Once they've done that, I'll get going on NanoBSD with
> the goal to be able to use it to build a bootable system of any
> architecture from packages with no root privs. I expect to find issues, but
> I don't expect to find any issue that's intractable. I expect after the
> issues are resolved, the end product will be better for everybody.

Thank you for working on NanoBSD.  Do you think it would be possible
to add support for optionally building dump(8) images instead of dd?

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DE


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