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

[NGie Cooper]

> On Apr 24, 2016, at 05:34, Daniel Eischen <deischen at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
>> On Sat, 23 Apr 2016, Warner Losh wrote:
>> 
>> On Sat, Apr 23, 2016 at 7:51 AM, Daniel Eischen <deischen at freebsd.org>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> [CC trimmed]
>>> 
>>>> 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?
>> 
>> 
>> What do you  mean by that, exactly? It would be relatively easy to add
>> a step that runs dump on the _.disk.image file and squirrel that away.
>> Last orders the code currently calls it, I believe. Is it something as
>> simple
>> as this, or is there some more complexity that I'm failing to understand
>> or grasp?
> 
> Perhaps I'm missing something, but when last_orders() is called,
> isn't the disk already unmounted and 'mdconfig -d -u' already
> run?

Yup.

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