Subject: Re: Adding nawk to bootstrap?
To: Johnny Lam <jlam@pkgsrc.org>
From: Thomas Klausner <wiz@NetBSD.org>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 07/14/2006 14:17:49
On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 03:03:09PM -0400, Johnny Lam wrote:
> I'd like to add pkgsrc/lang/nawk to the bootstrap kit.  AWK is used 
> pretty extensively within pkgsrc/mk, so I think nawk counts as a 
> "must-have" for using pkgsrc.  My plan is to extract nawk into 
> pkgsrc/lang/nawk/files and use the copy_src procedure currently used by 
> the other bootstrap tools.

Fine by me.

> My eventual goal is to use the bootstrap script to install:
> 
> 	bmake, bmake-mk, pax, tar, mtree, ftp, pkg_install, sed, awk
> 
> and then use pkgsrc itself to register the installed bootstrap files.

Yes, please!
 Thomas