Hubert Feyrer wrote:

> On Tue, 10 Jan 2006, Moinak Ghosh wrote:
>
>>  distribution and was thinking of doing a chroot for harddisk 
>> install. But this will
>>  require copying a minimal chroot environment to harddisk prior to 
>> running Pkgsrc
>>  to install the system packages.
>
>
> Do you understand that pkgsrc is for compiling only,
> and that pkg_add is for binary (precompiled) packages?
> Seriously, I don't think you want pkgsrc (== compiling) when installing
> a system. Unless you're Gentoo. ;)
>
> In summary, this should benefit your system, too.

   Indeed, that is what I was pointing out. Having DESTDIR will benefit 
BeleniX
   as  well. I'd like the installer to deal with binary packages during 
install and not
   having DESTDIR will require chroot tricks for pkg_add. Just apply a
   s/Pkgsrc/pkg_add/g  to my earlier email :)

Regards,
Moinak.

>
>
>  - Hubert