Re: how to upgrade a whole machine ...

[Dieter Baron <dillo%KD119105101110.ppp-bb.dion.ne.jp@localhost>]

In article <87y76lsrk2.fsf%inbox.ru@localhost> Aleksej wrote:
: "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.

  You don't need pkgsrc to use binary packages.

                                                yours,
                                                dillo