On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 1:59 PM, Justin Sherrill <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 7:05 AM, Carsten Mattner > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Sorry for hijacking the thread, but are there plans to provide base binary >> tarballs or even modularize it into several packages for use with pkg? >> For a stable branch to be used on servers, it'd be much, much easier. > > That's two separate things - binary installs, and using pkg to hold > the base system. I'm assuming you want binary installs. It could in > theory be possible to do that now with a live CD and cpdup - in > theory. There hasn't been anyone that I know of specifically working > on this as an idea.
I know, and I wrote ' or ' because of that :). I had the best BSD binary base update experience with HardenedBSD's hbsd-update, while FreeBSD's old update scripts have always been a little too much work. Now that FreeBSD is working on pkg'ifying base, it might win here. If I reformulate my question: Given that the pkg tree has binaries and thus makes updates easy on a server, if you don't need different make options, why is it deemed not a big deal that updating base requires, say, a buildworld on your remote server? Do serious dfly server operators build locally and push binaries to the server?
