Subject: Re: packages @ install, was Bringing CVS Into the Tree
To: None <hubert.feyrer@informatik.fh-regensburg.de>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@nas.nasa.gov>
List: current-users
Date: 01/10/2000 09:08:50
On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Hubert Feyrer wrote:

> > What's missing? Code to keep /mnt out of the recorded paths?
> 
> Everything:
>  - local & remote (ftp) pkg browsers
>  - pkg_add that can be called from the boot floppy (shared libs!)
>  - i haven't even thought about the /mnt issue yet

Actually only the first is a problem, if we go with the using the
just-installed pkg tools. With a little chroot action, problems 2 and 3 go
away. :-)

For a new install, what ever we do for a browser in the base system will
be fine here. For an upgrade, we probably should do something which looks
at existing packages and offers to upgrade them.

Take care,

Bill