t be maintainer's nightmare to take care of all the
> dependencies on the base packages for each port we have in the ports tree?
No more than it is today. Remember, people have been doing this sort of
thing for decades. If the folks at Red Hat, Oracle (formerly Sun), and
IBM can
In message <7b9f9f37-9dcb-4b9d-bef1-8c3092331...@opnsense.org>, Franco
Fichtner
writes:
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>
> > On 30. Apr 2019, at 2:25 AM, Cy Schubert wrote:
> >
> > As for updating, freebsd-update is mostly there to accomplish your requirem
> ent without pkgbase. Which be
update and it does most of what we want why the extra effort? Unless we
want to solve more than just this problem? Which BTW I think we do.
I've seen pkgbase as a building block to build an anaconda-like installer
complete with scripting language. The ability to pick and choose packages as
many Lin
On April 29, 2019 1:09:59 PM PDT, k...@ixsystems.com wrote:
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>> -Original Message-----
>> From: Cy Schubert
>> Sent: Monday, April 29, 2019 3:31 PM
>> To: Rodney W. Grimes
>> Cc: Kris Moore ; FreeBSD Stable > sta...@freebsd.org>; freebsd-po...@
install while person B wanted to replace, picking a random example, BSD
tar with GNU tar. Isn't that the real advantage of pkgbase?
If OTOH it's binary updates V 2.0, what's the point? I'm a little
rhetorical here but you get my point. If I want ipfw instead pf or
ip
