Re: NetBSD system package

Yuuki Enomoto <[email protected]> Fri, 29 Jun 2018 23:17:40 +0900

Newsgroups	gmane.os.netbsd.devel.packages,gmane.os.netbsd.devel.general,gmane.os.netbsd.devel.installation
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On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 12:18:58PM +0000, [email protected] wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 06:23:00AM +0000, Thomas Mueller wrote:
> > > I am working on wip/basepkg that follows syspkgs project[1]. It can
> > > make base system packages as syspkg.
> > 
> > > I gave an presentations in AsiaBSDCon 2017 and 2018[2]. I am using
> > > it and it seems to be work well. But it has still a few problems
> > > (dependency, naming of package, build server, etc).
> > 
> > > Source code and usage are here[3]. I want to obtain feedback from
> > > users of basepkg.
> > 
> > > Thank you!
> > 
> > > [1] https://wiki.netbsd.org/projects/project/syspkgs/
> > > [2] http://www.jp.netbsd.org/gallery/presentations/index.html
> > > [3] https://github.com/user340/basepkg
> > 
> > > Yuuki Enomoto <[email protected]>
> > 
> > FreeBSD is also trying something like this, originally intended to be included in FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE, but that proved far too ambitious.
> > 
> > Now FreeBSD is apparently trying to include pkgbase in FreeBSD 12.0, but activity on [email protected] emailing list is very infrequent.
> > 
> > Would NetBSD users have the choice on whether or not to include native X in NetBSD system package, or to use pkgsrc modular-xorg?
> > 
> > FreeBSD does not include Xorg in base system, only in ports (their package building and management system, comparable to pkgsrc for NetBSD).
> 
> That isn't a "change of direction announcement", it's a project Yuuki
> Enomoto is working on.
> 
> NetBSD/pkgsrc do not impose strong choices about where Xorg comes from.
> You can use Xorg from pkgsrc if you wish, and not install the X sets.
> I assume even with basepkg it is still possible.
> 
> The current choice for NetBSD is to continue with base Xorg.
> Keep in mind that NetBSD ships a release with a binary & functional Xorg
> even for architectures like m68k, and to provide the same from pkgsrc
> would take large amounts of work.
> Any change will have to be for select architectures only.

basepkg is third party project, so it is not NetBSD official project.

Sorry for confusing you.

-- 
Yuuki Enomoto <[email protected]>

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