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      1  1.1  jwise Work Plan: NetBSD System Packages
      2  1.1  jwise =================================
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      4  1.1  jwise This document is intended as a work plan for modification of the NetBSD
      5  1.1  jwise install process to use `system packages' and `package sets' to install
      6  1.1  jwise the base system instead of the current set tarballs.
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      8  1.1  jwise The steps toward this goal are as follows.  Step a.) has already occurred,
      9  1.1  jwise and the remaining steps will begin this week, with changes influenced by
     10  1.1  jwise discussion on these lists.
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     12  1.1  jwise     a.) update {make,check}flist, etc. to ignore all but the first
     13  1.1  jwise 	(whitespace separated) field of each line of each set file
     14  1.1  jwise 
     15  1.1  jwise     b.) add at least additional fields to each line of each set list
     16  1.1  jwise 	containing the name of the pkg the file is to be associated
     17  1.1  jwise 	with
     18  1.1  jwise 
     19  1.1  jwise     c.) add DESCR's, COMMENTs, etc. in a tree under src/distrib/pkg,
     20  1.1  jwise 	this tree will be  hierarchical, with an organization
     21  1.1  jwise 	similar to pkgsrc.
     22  1.1  jwise 
     23  1.1  jwise     d.) add a script to churn through the set files and syspkg/
     24  1.1  jwise 	and register the existing system, removing anything in
     25  1.1  jwise 	the obsolete lists in the process.  This is working but
     26  1.1  jwise 	needs a complete rewrite.
     27  1.1  jwise 
     28  1.1  jwise At this point, make build can register packages as if a packaged install
     29  1.1  jwise had been done.  pkgs will be removable, and pkg versions will be usable
     30  1.1  jwise in a DEPENDS=.  This will _greatly_ ease the process of upgrading from
     31  1.1  jwise a NetBSD system installed at this point to a later packaged distribution.
     32  1.1  jwise Now comes the fun part:
     33  1.1  jwise 
     34  1.1  jwise     e.) modify the distribution building makefiles to build
     35  1.1  jwise 	binary packages from the packages registered in DESTDIR
     36  1.1  jwise 
     37  1.1  jwise     f.) modify pkg_* to understand pkgsets which are tarballs of
     38  1.1  jwise 	pkgs with a contents file of some sort.  These will be
     39  1.1  jwise 	used by sysinst to 1.) minimize the number of files to
     40  1.1  jwise 	be downloaded and 2.) present the current selection
     41  1.1  jwise 	granularity by default.
     42  1.1  jwise 
     43  1.1  jwise     g.) modify the make distrib tools to build these pkgsets from
     44  1.1  jwise 	the binary packages.
     45  1.1  jwise 
     46  1.1  jwise     h.) modify sysinst's set installation to use these pkgsets
     47  1.1  jwise 	instead of the current (tarball) sets.
     48  1.1  jwise 
     49  1.1  jwise     i.) modify sysinst to allow `zooming in' on a set and picking
     50  1.1  jwise 	what to install at pkg granularity, with dependencies
     51  1.1  jwise 	enforced and so on. 
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     54  1.1  jwise $Id: WORKPLAN,v 1.1.1.1 2002/01/07 22:46:17 jwise Exp $
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