Packaging the FreeBSD base system with pkg(8)

[Slawa Olhovchenkov]

On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 07:34:43PM -0500, Garrett Wollman wrote:

> > Source upgrade is self-contained and don't depend from environment.
> > Contrary to binary upgrade may depend of environment: presents pkg.txz
> > on ftp.freebsd.org, freebsd.org ovned by project and etc. As result,
> > in case of bad design, you can't upgrade from 11.0 nowhere (ex: packages
> > for 11.x outdated and deleted, pkg.txz from latest suported release
> > can't be run on 11.0, pkg from 11.0 can't be parsed latest format).
> 
> You can always build your own release-package repository, stepping

Another question is about complexity own release repository. For
example, own freebsd-update server is too complex and incorrectly
build.

> through the intermediate source releases just as you would do now.
> All you need to do is preserve the last release package set you build
> from each stable branch.

I am talk about SUDDENLY discovered outdated setup.