pkg_dry on DragonFlyBSD

Matthew Dillon dillon at apollo.backplane.com
Thu May 7 09:51:38 PDT 2009


:I'm not sure about kqemu - it's very useful, but since it's a kernel
:module, it has a different status.
:
:However, pkg_dry is a "normal" software application, and I suspect will
:turn into a pkgsrc package quickly.  If that's the case, we could just
:install it along with other packages as part of the installer.  Keeping it
:in a /usr/src/ dir could cause some minor headaches in terms of updating
:it, so pushing it into pkgsrc solves that nicely.
:
:In fact, would it be worth packaging DragonFly-specific items in pkgsrc
:format even if they weren't in pkgsrc CVS?  It'd give us some ready-to-go
:management tools for software maintenance.

    Hmm.  Maybe.  I'm not so worried about updating... the idea is that
    the stuff in /usr/src/stuff is not integrated into the build, it's just
    a place to save things.  Once that thing gets integrated elsewhere it
    can be removed from /usr/src/stuff.

    Having a local package sub-tree is an interesting idea.

					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
					<dillon at backplane.com>





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