Re: Sysinst support for installing source sets

Am 07.03.2012 um 00:05 schrieb Jeff Rizzo:

> On 3/3/12 8:39 AM, Andreas Gustafsson wrote:
>> Julian Fagir wrote:
>>> as already stated by you, this is half of the fix for PR install/9582.
>>> Doing the same for pkgsrc is mostly copy&paste (I've already done that), but
>>> it's not very clean.
>>> To fetch pkgsrc, you cannot use the ftp directories as used before, because
>>> they are rooted in the netbsd/ directory. To fetch pkgsrc, you'd have to use
>>> a ../pkgsrc/ in the pathname.
>>> Do you really want that? Or rather change the ftp root directory (which might
>>> not be reliable)?
>> I'm afraid I don't have a quick and easy answer to that question.
>> That's part of the reason why I didn't add pkgsrc installation support
>> myself at the same time as the src installation support.
> 
> I have some (ugly) patches which add some stuff to sysinst, pkgsrc install being one of them.  I haven't done anything with it in a couple months, because I didn't get much feedback.
> 
> http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-install/2012/01/23/msg000223.html  was the original message, and the patch is here:
> 
> http://www.tastylime.net/netbsd/sysinst.diff

I wonder if sh shouldn't do that in Lua.  My sysinst diff contains already a simple pkg installer, which definitely needs more work.
otoh, I don't mind if this gets added, it does not interfere much with the Lua stuff I am working on.

- Marc