1 Work Plan: NetBSD System Packages
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4 This document is intended as a work plan for modification of the NetBSD
5 install process to use `system packages' and `package sets' to install
6 the base system instead of the current set tarballs.
8 The steps toward this goal are as follows. Step a.) has already occurred,
9 and the remaining steps will begin this week, with changes influenced by
10 discussion on these lists.
12 a.) update {make,check}flist, etc. to ignore all but the first
13 (whitespace separated) field of each line of each set file
15 b.) add at least additional fields to each line of each set list
16 containing the name of the pkg the file is to be associated
19 c.) add DESCR's, COMMENTs, etc. in a tree under src/distrib/pkg,
20 this tree will be hierarchical, with an organization
23 d.) add a script to churn through the set files and syspkg/
24 and register the existing system, removing anything in
25 the obsolete lists in the process. This is working but
26 needs a complete rewrite.
28 At this point, make build can register packages as if a packaged install
29 had been done. pkgs will be removable, and pkg versions will be usable
30 in a DEPENDS=. This will _greatly_ ease the process of upgrading from
31 a NetBSD system installed at this point to a later packaged distribution.
32 Now comes the fun part:
34 e.) modify the distribution building makefiles to build
35 binary packages from the packages registered in DESTDIR
37 f.) modify pkg_* to understand pkgsets which are tarballs of
38 pkgs with a contents file of some sort. These will be
39 used by sysinst to 1.) minimize the number of files to
40 be downloaded and 2.) present the current selection
41 granularity by default.
43 g.) modify the make distrib tools to build these pkgsets from
46 h.) modify sysinst's set installation to use these pkgsets
47 instead of the current (tarball) sets.
49 i.) modify sysinst to allow `zooming in' on a set and picking
50 what to install at pkg granularity, with dependencies
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54 $Id: WORKPLAN,v 1.1.1.1 2002/01/07 22:46:17 jwise Exp $