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      1 Work Plan: NetBSD System Packages
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      4 This document is intended as a work plan for modification of the NetBSD
      5 install process to use `system packages' and `package sets' to install
      6 the base system instead of the current set tarballs.
      7 
      8 The steps toward this goal are as follows.  Step a.) has already occurred,
      9 and the remaining steps will begin this week, with changes influenced by
     10 discussion on these lists.
     11 
     12     a.) update {make,check}flist, etc. to ignore all but the first
     13 	(whitespace separated) field of each line of each set file
     14 
     15     b.) add at least additional fields to each line of each set list
     16 	containing the name of the pkg the file is to be associated
     17 	with
     18 
     19     c.) add DESCR's, COMMENTs, etc. in a tree under src/distrib/pkg,
     20 	this tree will be  hierarchical, with an organization
     21 	similar to pkgsrc.
     22 
     23     d.) add a script to churn through the set files and syspkg/
     24 	and register the existing system, removing anything in
     25 	the obsolete lists in the process.  This is working but
     26 	needs a complete rewrite.
     27 
     28 At this point, make build can register packages as if a packaged install
     29 had been done.  pkgs will be removable, and pkg versions will be usable
     30 in a DEPENDS=.  This will _greatly_ ease the process of upgrading from
     31 a NetBSD system installed at this point to a later packaged distribution.
     32 Now comes the fun part:
     33 
     34     e.) modify the distribution building makefiles to build
     35 	binary packages from the packages registered in DESTDIR
     36 
     37     f.) modify pkg_* to understand pkgsets which are tarballs of
     38 	pkgs with a contents file of some sort.  These will be
     39 	used by sysinst to 1.) minimize the number of files to
     40 	be downloaded and 2.) present the current selection
     41 	granularity by default.
     42 
     43     g.) modify the make distrib tools to build these pkgsets from
     44 	the binary packages.
     45 
     46     h.) modify sysinst's set installation to use these pkgsets
     47 	instead of the current (tarball) sets.
     48 
     49     i.) modify sysinst to allow `zooming in' on a set and picking
     50 	what to install at pkg granularity, with dependencies
     51 	enforced and so on. 
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     54 $Id: WORKPLAN,v 1.1.1.1 2002/01/07 22:46:17 jwise Exp $
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