Re: how to upgrade a whole machine ...

[Aleksej Saushev <asau%inbox.ru@localhost>]

"Jeremy C. Reed" <reed%reedmedia.net@localhost> writes:

>> This has probably been suggested before, but... It sounds as though the
>> versions of pkg_* tools bundled with NetBSD should be changed to use a
>> wrapper, in much the same way that /usr/sbin/sendmail is actually a link
>> to mailwraper(8), which consults mailer.conf(5) to decide which flavour
>> of sendmail to invoke.  Then, when you want to upgrade your pkg_* tools
>> from the ancient ones shipped with the OS release to the modern ones in
>> pkgsrc, you simply install the new versions from pkgsrc and edit the
>> relevant .conf file to point to them.
>
> That wrapper config seems to imply the admin has a choice. But would they 
> ever go back to using system supplied version?
>
> Some other options are:
>
> - pkgsrc install direct to /usr/sbin/pkg* (which end up getting 
> overwritten by system upgrades).
>
> - Get rid of /usr/sbin/pkg_* and only use /usr/pkg/sbin/pkg_*. But bad 
> idea for those who like to rm -rf /usr/pkg/
>
> - Simple script in base system to fetch and install pkg_install package. 
> Script could extract it, then run that extracted part to install itself.

Since the script is intended to be simple, why it should go with the
base system? pkgsrc has to be fetched by hands anyway.


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