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Work Plan: NetBSD System Packages
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This document is intended as a work plan for modification of the NetBSD
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install process to use `system packages' and `package sets' to install
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the base system instead of the current set tarballs.
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The steps toward this goal are as follows. Step a.) has already occurred,
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and the remaining steps will begin this week, with changes influenced by
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discussion on these lists.
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a.) update {make,check}flist, etc. to ignore all but the first
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(whitespace separated) field of each line of each set file
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b.) add at least additional fields to each line of each set list
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containing the name of the pkg the file is to be associated
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with
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c.) add DESCR's, COMMENTs, etc. in a tree under src/distrib/pkg,
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this tree will be hierarchical, with an organization
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similar to pkgsrc.
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d.) add a script to churn through the set files and syspkg/
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and register the existing system, removing anything in
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the obsolete lists in the process. This is working but
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needs a complete rewrite.
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At this point, make build can register packages as if a packaged install
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had been done. pkgs will be removable, and pkg versions will be usable
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in a DEPENDS=. This will _greatly_ ease the process of upgrading from
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a NetBSD system installed at this point to a later packaged distribution.
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Now comes the fun part:
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e.) modify the distribution building makefiles to build
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binary packages from the packages registered in DESTDIR
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f.) modify pkg_* to understand pkgsets which are tarballs of
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pkgs with a contents file of some sort. These will be
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used by sysinst to 1.) minimize the number of files to
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be downloaded and 2.) present the current selection
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granularity by default.
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g.) modify the make distrib tools to build these pkgsets from
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the binary packages.
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h.) modify sysinst's set installation to use these pkgsets
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instead of the current (tarball) sets.
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i.) modify sysinst to allow `zooming in' on a set and picking
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what to install at pkg granularity, with dependencies
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enforced and so on.
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$Id: WORKPLAN,v 1.1.1.1 2002/01/07 22:46:17 jwise Exp $
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