Base Package Origins

[Glen Barber]

On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 03:47:14PM -0400, Kris Moore wrote:
> On 04/26/16 03:40 PM, Renato Botelho wrote:
> >> On Apr 26, 2016, at 14:54, Kris Moore <kris at ixsystems.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> So, we're in the process of moving to package base for PC-BSD -CURRENT
> >> images next month. The only real nit I'm seeing so far is that each
> >> package has a origin of 'base'. Shouldn't that be unique for each
> >> package? I.E. base/FreeBSD-<foo>
> > Hi Kris,
> >
> > We are working to move pfSense 2.4 development snapshots to 11 with base package as well
> >
> > How are you dealing with files installed by distrib* targets? (/etc/rc, /etc/master.passwd, …)
> >
> 
> I've looked at a kludge to ship those bits as another .txz. Did you have
> another method, or is this something we can expect fixed properly as a
> package, I.E. FreeBSD-distrib-FOO.txz
> 

One (other kludge) I was considering was automatically invoking
etcupdate(8) on 'FreeBSD-runtime' installation, which should
automatically populate /etc on a clean install, as well as keeping /etc
updated as part of upgrades.

But, I *really* do not like that idea...

Glen

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