On 2016/02/12 16:03, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: > There was a thread a month or 2 back that mentioned adopting the pkg > 'package format' for binary base packages. This would at least unify > base & userland binaries under 1 package management system (& I *love* > freebsd-update, BTW, *NO* aspersions being cast here). As I understand > things, there would be separate repo's for base (obviously) & userland, > but 1 unified format/package-manager. For those wanting to compile > either base or userland themselves, they still could, since pkg is > reasonably 'port' aware (& hopefuly could be made /usr/src aware as > well), & they could use whatever src-base/port management tools they > wanted. I definitely agree that a well integrated ability to possibly > mix locally compiled stuff w/ repo-binaries is quite desirable in many > scenarios & a nice advantage for FreeBSD. $0.02 from the (*very*) cheap > seats, no more, no less ....
Yes, this is planned for FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE. One big chunk of
functionality made possible by this change is the ability to selectively
install (or not) different bits of the base system -- so you could
install FreeBSD /without/ sendmail using the standard binary packages,
and maintain it entirely by binary pkg updates. At the moment, if you
want a system 'WITHOUT_SENDMAIL' then you have to compile it yourself.
Cheers,
Matthew
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