Re: pkg_tarup inclusion in pkg_create

[David Brownlee <abs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On 3 January 2012 02:46, Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost> 
wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 03:30:54AM +0100, Julian Fagir wrote:
>> in the pkg_tarup comments you can read somebody proposing the integration of
>> pkg_tarup to pkg_admin. pkg_admin is not suited for that, but pkg_create is,
>> as it is the tool behind pkg_tarup.
>> I'm not much into the whole packaging thing, but I need this functionality, 
>> so
>> I numbly took over all the functionality of pkg_tarup to pkg_admin.
>
> I am against this. pkg_tarup is essentially a hack for not keeping
> binary packages around. The DESTDIR support removed most reasons for
> doing modifications to the file system without safety belts and can also
> make sure that such a binary package is always around. More importantly,
> there are a number of cases where pkg_add $foo followed by pkg_tarup
> will not create the same state.

Would it make more sense to regard it as more of a pkg_snapshot tool - to take
a snapshot of the installed package state so it can be restored?

If so I would suggest it names the generated packages distinctively...