>So, I have followed most of this patching in the minrroot thread. I have >some comments to add: > >The miniroot is 'special' and owned by install. I agree that perhaps it >shouldn't be special, but it is.
As you suggested in your other mail "not making it special" would be my preferred option. How can we make it "not special", perhaps by making sure certain services are not required and can be removed? (About 6 services have their script replaced with "exit 0"; if they could be removed from the repository instead .....) >If you read the man page for patchadd -C it says that you should only >install patches that are recommended for the miniroot, such as >install-related patches, like pkg commands, etc..this is a very limited >set of patches. Unfortunately, patches with (boot) device support *must* be included as do patches which fix issues in ACPI, pci and others. Any suggestions for a way forward? Casper
