Subject: Re: uucp pkg available for testing [was: Re: Proposal for new utility in base: bin/nc]
To: None <rmk@rmkhome.com>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 10/18/2001 21:10:32
On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 01:46:02AM -0600, Rick Kelly wrote:
> Hubert Feyrer said:
> 
> >On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Lucio De Re wrote:
> >> * intentionally personal reply - feel free to publish *
> >
> >OK! :)
> 
> >Um, historic reasons - the pkg system is not as old as the rest of the
> >system, but the goal is to move to a pkg based base system eventually. I
> >hear there's some work on it's way, but that should not stop us now.
> 
> Right now there are dozens of ways to install NetBSD.
> 
> The most simple way is to:
> 
> 1. format disk
> 2. label disk
> 3. newfs disk
> 4. tar --unlink -zxvpf *.tgz

I can't see this as a problem, as long as you can remplace 4) with
pkg_add -d /mnt *.tgz

of course there's no '-d' flag to pkg_add yet, but if we move to a pkgised
base system we'll have to :)

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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