Re: Merge of pkg_install-renovation

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 03:30:40PM +0100, Hubert Feyrer wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Nov 2008, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
>> - no more runtime dependencies on ftp or pax, pkg_install is essentially
>>  self-contained
>
> Have you verified installation of binary packages
>  - from local storage
>  - via ftp
>  - via http

Yes. It has been used for that.

>> - pkg_add no longer extracts to /var/tmp, in-place installation is the
>>  default
>
> How do you roll back if something goes wrong in pkg_add?

pkg_delete as before. It makes sure to write the pkgdb entry first and
will try to clean up as usual.

Joerg