PackagingBase [FreeBSD WIKI]

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[[/BaptisteDaroussin|BaptisteDaroussin]] can give us a status update and then we can talk about ways for others to get involved.

The SVN Branch is here: ''%%https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/projects/release-pkg/release/packages/%%'' (This link is broken)

Break things down into different layers:
  * %%FreeBSD%% (metapackage)
    * Kernel
    * Base
      * Runtime
      * ssh
      * sendmail
      * ...
    * Dev Tools

Building:
''%%make packages buildkernel create-kernel-packages%%''

===== Todo =====

pkg:
  * Flag files to be upgraded first
  * Multiple packages with the same name in the repo (not depend origin)
  * pre-uninstall hooks into the solver to check before removing something critical (i.e. Kernel)

stageworld:
  * Generates a large MANIFEST file.. go through any items that do not have a tag. Figure out why and add a tag.

==== Attending ====

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^ Name ^ Username / Affiliation ^ Topics of Interest ^ Notes ^
| [[/BaptisteDaroussin|BaptisteDaroussin]] | bapt | all |  |
| [[/BradDavis|BradDavis]] | brd | all | Organizer |
| [[/ReneLadan|ReneLadan]] | rene |  |  |
| [[/EdMaste|EdMaste]] | emaste |  |  |
| [[/JeanSébastienPédron|Jean-Sébastien Pédron]] | dumbbell | all |  |
| [[/OllivierRobert|OllivierRobert]] | roberto |  |  |

==== Notes ====
Thanks to %%DagErlingSm%%ørgrav for taking notes

  * want to provide new mechanism for installing and updating the base system: set of packages
  * project branch: base/projects/release-pkg
  * two philosophies: "one big thing" vs "highly granular"
  * packages, meta-packages etc
  * three layers: kernel base(runtime) devel
  * granularity not yet defined, probably a "core" package with !contrib and individual packages for contrib
  * binary upgrades on regular basis, including for stable and current branches
  * least intrusive way possible: cd /usr/src && make packages
  * project branch, creates a world package and a kernel package
  * mostly done with hooking into the build system
  * some issues with flags and hard links (can't link to a schg)
  * some files are not installed with INSTALL_FOO and fall between the cracks
  * etc is complicated because it mixes files which belong to different components (e.g. ssh, unbound)
  * pkg now has three-way merge for /etc
  * UCL files define packages, license, architecture
  * TODO: work on splitting up world into packages
  * TODO: flags to force installation order, problem for libc, libthr and rtld-elf - this is not a problem from day to day but *can* trip you up
  * TODO: having multiple kernel packages installed concurrently, modify the loader to provide a list of available kernels with the most recent one as the default
  * TODO: having multiple versions of the same package in the same repository
  * TODO: how to automatically bump package versions
  * TODO: improve reproducibility
  * complain about removing current kernel: can't rely on pre-uninstall script because so many scripts are broken that we currently ignore them.  Perhaps a new "callback" script which reports that the package is "precious"?
  * package naming / numbering
    * %%FreeBSD%%-runtime-10.2_4
    * %%FreeBSD%%-runtime-11.s20151001
    * %%FreeBSD%%-runtime-11.0
  * for now, no attempt to have ports depend on base

=== UPGRADE PATH ===

Create a shell script that registers your current base system in the pkg local db, distribute this script to existing installations with freebsd-update.
Users run this script to convert their system, and then upgrade to 11.