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Re: pkgdb



On 17.12.2020 18:24, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 06:11:37PM +0100, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
>> On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 06:04:35PM +0100, Kamil Rytarowski wrote:
>>> [...]
>>>
>>> For new installations and new pkgsrc releases, install pkgin from
>>> sysinst and use 'pkgin install $package'.
>>
>> and from where does sysinst install pkgin, if it's not in the base system ?
>>
>> right now, on production systems the first thing I install is usually
>> pkgin, but for this I need pkg_add from the base system.
> 
> Build a binary bootstrap kit as part of the bulk builds or as part of
> the release process and install it as set. Just like every other system
> works right now.
> 
> Joerg
> 

I support the bootstrap kit as part of the bulk build and scheduling the
process of ditching pkgsrc tools from base after a few years.

A user would need to just fetch a tarball and unpack it. sysinst(8)
could easily wrap this process with a simple installer function.

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