svn commit: r295280 - projects/release-pkg/release/packages

[Bryan Drewery]

On 2/4/2016 1:31 PM, Nathan Whitehorn wrote:
> 
> 
> On 02/04/16 13:20, Glen Barber wrote:
>> Author: gjb
>> Date: Thu Feb  4 21:20:26 2016
>> New Revision: 295280
>> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/295280
>>
>> Log:
>>    Add package files for libc, libedit, librtld_db, and libthr.
>>       libedit is needed for sh(1), which if updated before runtime,
>>    can cause undesirable behavior.
>>       For the rest, the installation order needs to be:
>>        1) librtld
>>     2) libc
>>     3) libthr
>>       The dependency listing and shilbs_required entries ensure this
>>    behavior.
> 
> Are we really planning to split up the system at this level of
> granularity? That seems like a huge regression from one of the main
> selling points of FreeBSD: that it is *not* split up at this level and
> forms a unified system.
> -Nathan
> 

You are jumping to conclusions. Splitting how files are *tracked in
metadata* changes nothing about what we are delivering in a release.

What level does freebsd-update track the system? It seems it is per-file.

This constant idea that splitting files in metadata is bad is hindering
progress greatly.

-- 
Regards,
Bryan Drewery

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