Re: pkgng suggestion: renaming /usr/sbin/pkg to

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On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 08:10:50AM -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
> On Friday, August 31, 2012 5:59:10 am Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 01:02:06PM -1000, Doug Barton wrote:
> > > On 08/30/2012 07:32 AM, John Baldwin wrote:
> > > > On Thursday, August 30, 2012 1:10:24 pm Chris Rees wrote:
> > > >> On 30 Aug 2012 18:03, "John Baldwin" <jhb@freebsd.org> wrote:
> > > >>>
> > >=20
> > > I agree with John on all counts here. Further, the idea of a
> > > self-installing package, at least for the pkg stuff itself, addresses
> > > the issue that someone else brought up about how to handle installati=
on
> > > of pkg by the installer for a new system.
> >=20
> > I like the idea of also providing a self-installing package, and it see=
ms really
> > easy to do, so I'll try to see what I can do in this area I'll wrote a =
PoC in 5
> > minutes which looks pretty good, this could also be a very simple and e=
asy way
> > to integrate into bsdinstaller.
> >=20
> > I'll do work in that direction.
> >=20
> > Still it doesn't solve the problem of boostrapping pkgng in a fresh new=
 box,
> > because the user may not know where to download the pkg-setup.sh.
>=20
> I do think that is something bsdinstall should be able to handle, and I w=
ould
> certainly want bsdinstall to include a dialog that says "do you want to i=
nstall
> the package manager?"
>=20
> --=20
> John Baldwin
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Of course this is being worked on by dteske@ on his bsdconfig scripts, so y=
es in
anycase the bsdinstaller will end up with a boostrap dialog to install pkgn=
g.

regards,
Bapt

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