Re: Followup on packaging base with pkg(8)

2016-05-20 Thread Glen Barber
Most of the known issues (I believe all of the known issues at this time) are on the wiki: https://wiki.freebsd.org/PkgBase Glen On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 09:22:46AM +0300, Dan Partelly wrote: > Thanks for the work you put in this major feature. > > Could we please get a full list of the issues

Re: Followup on packaging base with pkg(8)

2016-05-20 Thread Dan Partelly
Thanks for the work you put in this major feature. Could we please get a full list of the issues which surfaced, quirks, and other worth to mention notes ? I believe its important. > On 19 May 2016, at 23:31, Glen Barber wrote: > > Despite the schedule adjustment for

Re: Followup on packaging base with pkg(8)

2016-05-19 Thread Ngie Cooper
On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 1:31 PM, Glen Barber wrote: > Dear FreeBSD community: ... > Thank you to everyone who supported this effort, and we hope you will > continue to support and test the forward development of packaging the > base system with pkg(8). Thank you too both bapt

Re: Followup on packaging base with pkg(8)

2016-05-19 Thread Michael Gmelin
> On 19 May 2016, at 23:29, jungle Boogie wrote: > >> On 19 May 2016 at 13:31, Glen Barber wrote: >> Given the state of this highly-disruptive change to the base system, we >> need to take the best interest of the FreeBSD community into primary >>

Re: Followup on packaging base with pkg(8)

2016-05-19 Thread jungle Boogie
On 19 May 2016 at 13:31, Glen Barber wrote: > Given the state of this highly-disruptive change to the base system, we > need to take the best interest of the FreeBSD community into primary > consideration, as a whole. > > We have arrived at the difficult decision to treat

Re: Followup on packaging base with pkg(8)

2016-05-19 Thread Kirk McKusick
Glen, I realize that you have put an enormous amount of effort into getting the packaging of base with pkg(8) into the 11.0 release and am sorry to hear that it needs to be delayed. But having watched the mailing lists during these efforts I realize that it is a much more difficult problem than

Followup on packaging base with pkg(8)

2016-05-19 Thread Glen Barber
Dear FreeBSD community: Early this year, it was announced [1] that FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE would ship not only with the ability to package the base system with pkg(8), but the intent to use pkg(8) as the primary binary upgrade mechanism for the base system. Despite the schedule adjustment for