Patch framework

Justin C. Sherrill justin at shiningsilence.com
Thu Mar 22 09:56:16 PDT 2007


On Thu, March 22, 2007 10:23 am, Eugene wrote:
> Justin C. Sherrill wrote:
>
>>>     Honestly, if you guys want something to work on this area.... how
>>>     about working on a way to integrate pkgsrc packages into the base
>>>     system build so we can get rid of all (or most) of our locally
>>>     maintained third party code bases?
>>
>> I haven't tried it, but isn't this somewhat possible now by including
>> the precompiled packages in $PKGSRC_PKG_PATH when using nrelease to
>> build a CD?
>
> Sorry for a stupid question, but does this mean changes in packages
> (adding or removing extra packages) for the CD?

If implemented, it would.  The install process would be the same; some
software usually built as part of the system would instead be included
through pkgsrc.







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