I'm planning on testing out pkgbase for maintaining jail file systems on
the 14 RELEASE family, including the upcoming 14.1 to 14.2 transition.
I looked for a reasonably clear way to determine the contents of the
packages without resorting to downloading and examining them.
Perhaps I was looking in the wrong place, but I did not find the
equivalent of `pkg-plist` in the FreeBSD source repo. I did chase down
seemingly related commits, such as 2f9966f "packages: add package for
NTP" which seems to add a `PACKAGE= ntp` notation to around 20
`Makefile`s, but nothing that I saw that looks like a plist.
Having a plist or manifest would help determining a nearly minimal set
of base packages that are needed for each jail, especially when it comes
to libraries or certain utilities that might be needed for traditional
packages and their rc scripts.
Is this information available without extracting from the
built/downloaded packages?
If it is only available as a build artifact, it might be valuable to
provide it along with the packages.
TIA,
Jeff
