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

[Glen Barber]

On Thu, Feb 04, 2016 at 01:50:27PM -0800, Bryan Drewery wrote:
> On 2/4/2016 1:47 PM, Bryan Drewery wrote:
> > 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.
> > 
> 
> Also, pkg has no binary diff packages. The plan to release 11 with
> packages is moving forward. Do we really want a multi-gigabyte world
> package being downloaded so we can modify a security bug in
> /etc/rc.d/jail? It makes no sense.
> 
> This commit in particular is wrong in that it does not go *far enough*.
> Everything installed needs to be handled by dependency ordering.
> 
> The resistance to doing this correctly needs to just stop or we're going
> to end up with a completely broken system.
> 

Or, the alternative outcome, 11.0-RELEASE ships without packaged base.

Glen

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