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Re: Ideas and questions on pkgsrc
Justin C. Sherrill wrote:
- General ideas about the bulk builds and binary installs; I've been
staring at it so long I can't see the forest because there's all these
trees in the way.
Yeah.. Lots of these ideas crossing my mind today as well -
this DNS-in-base thing kind of spurs a lot of thinking about direction
(or maybe thats my life right now :)
aaanyhow..
some things come to mind:
1) I've got some 'pkgsrc profile' scripts lying around. They are
basically lists of package names, which use 'rcorder' to create /
install a heirarchy of packages.. e.g. just to pick a random example,
your 'trac' profile might pull in your 'apache' profile,
and also your 'python' and 'developer tools' profile.
I'm in the process of dusting off code / revamping my website -
I'll try to get that released somehow - maybe getting it
into pkgsrc/pkgutils might make sense -
and providing a few stock ones of these might help..
which brings to mind:
2) nrelease vs pkgsrc vs contrib interfacing -
If the plan is to modularize alot of contrib, it probably makes sense
to get some kind of toolkit in place for this. I for one like having
some things 'always built', and running nrelease every now and again
has always seemed a bit like something that I do as an afterthought -
and having this be a more 'usual' thing, might make the release
go more smoothly / etc.
e.g. if my 'make buildworld' would build dfly world, a pkgsrc
bootstrap, and some core tools, like say BIND :) - that would be
pretty hip - and if 'make installworld' would drop those into place
without blowing up my base install, that would be hip too.
or maybe having a separate target, like 'make buildpkgs' in the master
makefile - in order to preserve modularity, I dunno..
Side point: Does the installer work in a vkernel, btw? I've never
tried - but this would probably help with release engineering /
end user documentation testing..
3) hack-a-thons - on line to start.
I think these would be a great idea. I for one am always scratching my
head to catch up with the list, etc.. Perhaps I should be on leaf /
IRC more too. my fault there.. but basically, there's lots of stupid
little things that I never get around to doing, coz there's always
some other thing. But yeah.
anyhow.. I spend far too much time writing emails to the list and not
writing code!
so, with that in mind - I'm off to catch up on git finally, so I can
commit my 1 liner from like a frigging month ago. w00t!
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