Re: pkgng suggestion: renaming /usr/sbin/pkg to /usr/sbin/pkg-bootstrap

2012-09-04 Thread Tijl Coosemans
On 01-09-2012 21:40, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 01/09/2012 18:43, Tijl Coosemans wrote: >> In this scenario the ports tree needs to keep support for older releases, >> but that's a consequence of the fact that there's only one ports tree for >> all releases. Somewhere in between the ports and the v

Re: pkgng suggestion: renaming /usr/sbin/pkg to /usr/sbin/pkg-bootstrap

2012-09-01 Thread Julien Laffaye
On 9/1/2012 7:43 PM, Tijl Coosemans wrote: On 31-08-2012 14:22, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 08:10:50AM -0400, John Baldwin wrote: On Friday, August 31, 2012 5:59:10 am Baptiste Daroussin wrote: On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 01:02:06PM -1000, Doug Barton wrote: I agree with Joh

Re: pkgng suggestion: renaming /usr/sbin/pkg to /usr/sbin/pkg-bootstrap

2012-09-01 Thread Tijl Coosemans
On 31-08-2012 14:22, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 08:10:50AM -0400, John Baldwin wrote: >> On Friday, August 31, 2012 5:59:10 am Baptiste Daroussin wrote: >>> On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 01:02:06PM -1000, Doug Barton wrote: I agree with John on all counts here. Further, the

Re: pkgng suggestion: renaming /usr/sbin/pkg to /usr/sbin/pkg-bootstrap

2012-08-31 Thread Craig Rodrigues
Hi, I think the details of the patch would need to be worked out a bit, but I think you are on the right track. I think it would be nice to: (1) Have deprecation warnings in the legacy pkg_* tools. If someone types "pkg_add", maybe warn them that it is deprecated, and they

Re: pkgng suggestion: renaming /usr/sbin/pkg to /usr/sbin/pkg-bootstrap

2012-08-31 Thread John Baldwin
On Friday, August 31, 2012 9:41:13 am Chris Rees wrote: > On 31 Aug 2012 13:15, "John Baldwin" wrote: > > > > On Friday, August 31, 2012 5:59:10 am Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > > > On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 01:02:06PM -1000, Doug Barton wrote: > > > > On 08/30/2012 07:32 AM, John Baldwin wrote: > > >

Re: pkgng suggestion: renaming /usr/sbin/pkg to /usr/sbin/pkg-bootstrap

2012-08-31 Thread Chris Rees
On 31 August 2012 16:47, Tijl Coosemans wrote: > On 31-08-2012 14:22, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: >> On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 08:10:50AM -0400, John Baldwin wrote: >>> On Friday, August 31, 2012 5:59:10 am Baptiste Daroussin wrote: On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 01:02:06PM -1000, Doug Barton wrote: >>>

Re: pkgng suggestion: renaming /usr/sbin/pkg to /usr/sbin/pkg-bootstrap

2012-08-31 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 2:59 AM, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 01:02:06PM -1000, Doug Barton wrote: >> On 08/30/2012 07:32 AM, John Baldwin wrote: >> > On Thursday, August 30, 2012 1:10:24 pm Chris Rees wrote: >> >> On 30 Aug 2012 18:03, "John Baldwin" wrote: >> >>> >> >> I

Re: pkgng suggestion: renaming /usr/sbin/pkg to /usr/sbin/pkg-bootstrap

2012-08-31 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 8:47 AM, Tijl Coosemans wrote: > On 31-08-2012 14:22, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: >> On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 08:10:50AM -0400, John Baldwin wrote: >>> On Friday, August 31, 2012 5:59:10 am Baptiste Daroussin wrote: On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 01:02:06PM -1000, Doug Barton wr

Re: pkgng suggestion: renaming /usr/sbin/pkg to /usr/sbin/pkg-bootstrap

2012-08-31 Thread Tijl Coosemans
On 31-08-2012 14:22, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 08:10:50AM -0400, John Baldwin wrote: >> On Friday, August 31, 2012 5:59:10 am Baptiste Daroussin wrote: >>> On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 01:02:06PM -1000, Doug Barton wrote: I agree with John on all counts here. Further, the

Re: pkgng suggestion: renaming /usr/sbin/pkg to /usr/sbin/pkg-bootstrap

2012-08-31 Thread Chris Rees
On 31 Aug 2012 13:15, "John Baldwin" wrote: > > On Friday, August 31, 2012 5:59:10 am Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 01:02:06PM -1000, Doug Barton wrote: > > > On 08/30/2012 07:32 AM, John Baldwin wrote: > > > > On Thursday, August 30, 2012 1:10:24 pm Chris Rees wrote: > > >

Re: pkgng suggestion: renaming /usr/sbin/pkg to /usr/sbin/pkg-bootstrap

2012-08-31 Thread Baptiste Daroussin
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 08:10:50AM -0400, John Baldwin wrote: > On Friday, August 31, 2012 5:59:10 am Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 01:02:06PM -1000, Doug Barton wrote: > > > On 08/30/2012 07:32 AM, John Baldwin wrote: > > > > On Thursday, August 30, 2012 1:10:24 pm Chris Re

Re: pkgng suggestion: renaming /usr/sbin/pkg to /usr/sbin/pkg-bootstrap

2012-08-31 Thread John Baldwin
On Friday, August 31, 2012 5:59:10 am Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 01:02:06PM -1000, Doug Barton wrote: > > On 08/30/2012 07:32 AM, John Baldwin wrote: > > > On Thursday, August 30, 2012 1:10:24 pm Chris Rees wrote: > > >> On 30 Aug 2012 18:03, "John Baldwin" wrote: > > >>>

Re: pkgng suggestion: renaming /usr/sbin/pkg to /usr/sbin/pkg-bootstrap

2012-08-31 Thread Baptiste Daroussin
On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 01:02:06PM -1000, Doug Barton wrote: > On 08/30/2012 07:32 AM, John Baldwin wrote: > > On Thursday, August 30, 2012 1:10:24 pm Chris Rees wrote: > >> On 30 Aug 2012 18:03, "John Baldwin" wrote: > >>> > > I agree with John on all counts here. Further, the idea of a > self-i

Re: pkgng suggestion: renaming /usr/sbin/pkg to /usr/sbin/pkg-bootstrap

2012-08-30 Thread Doug Barton
On 08/30/2012 07:32 AM, John Baldwin wrote: > On Thursday, August 30, 2012 1:10:24 pm Chris Rees wrote: >> On 30 Aug 2012 18:03, "John Baldwin" wrote: >>> >>> On Thursday, August 30, 2012 10:39:17 am Tijl Coosemans wrote: On 27-08-2012 18:24, John Baldwin wrote: > On Sunday, August 26, 20

Re: pkgng suggestion: renaming /usr/sbin/pkg to /usr/sbin/pkg-bootstrap

2012-08-27 Thread Olivier Smedts
2012/8/26 Baptiste Daroussin : > I received more feedback about keep pkg and changing it to > pkg-bootstrap, so what should I do, changing it because you are asking for it? So, just a "me too" for renaming pkg, for consistency. I don't mind the new name... -- Olivier Smedts

Re: pkgng suggestion: renaming /usr/sbin/pkg to /usr/sbin/pkg-bootstrap

2012-08-26 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Sun, 26 Aug 2012, Doug Barton wrote: ... There really is no need to be so clever here. The bootstrapping issue is going to be a minor annoyance that affects a small percentage of our users. I think Doug's correct in this case about it being a "one-time problem" as installing via bsdinsta

Re: pkgng suggestion: renaming /usr/sbin/pkg to /usr/sbin/pkg-bootstrap

2012-08-26 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2012-Aug-26 12:27:41 -0700, Doug Barton wrote: >On 08/26/2012 12:08, Ian Lepore wrote: >> Maybe it could rename itself to /usr/local/sbin/pkg-bootstrap as part of >> replacing itself, so that you could re-bootstrap your way out of a >> problem later. > >That's certainly creative thinking, but I

Re: pkgng suggestion: renaming /usr/sbin/pkg to /usr/sbin/pkg-bootstrap

2012-08-26 Thread Doug Barton
On 08/26/2012 13:35, Warren Block wrote: > On Sun, 26 Aug 2012, Ian Lepore wrote: > >> On Sun, 2012-08-26 at 20:58 +0200, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: >>> On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 11:39:07AM -0700, Doug Barton wrote: On 08/26/2012 05:58, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: This isn't the security issu

Re: pkgng suggestion: renaming /usr/sbin/pkg to /usr/sbin/pkg-bootstrap

2012-08-26 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 26 Aug 2012, Ian Lepore wrote: On Sun, 2012-08-26 at 20:58 +0200, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 11:39:07AM -0700, Doug Barton wrote: On 08/26/2012 05:58, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: This isn't the security issue I was talking about by having sbin/pkg pass every comman

Re: pkgng suggestion: renaming /usr/sbin/pkg to /usr/sbin/pkg-bootstrap

2012-08-26 Thread Doug Barton
On 08/26/2012 12:08, Ian Lepore wrote: > Would this get better if the bootstrap tool were named pkg and were > installed on a fresh system at /usr/local/sbin, so that it in effect > replaces itself with the real thing, and has no need to leave a > forwarding stub in /usr/sbin ? > > Maybe it could

Re: pkgng suggestion: renaming /usr/sbin/pkg to /usr/sbin/pkg-bootstrap

2012-08-26 Thread Ian Lepore
On Sun, 2012-08-26 at 20:58 +0200, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 11:39:07AM -0700, Doug Barton wrote: > > On 08/26/2012 05:58, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > > This isn't the security issue I was talking about by having sbin/pkg > > pass every command line to local/sbin/pkg. > >

Re: pkgng suggestion: renaming /usr/sbin/pkg to /usr/sbin/pkg-bootstrap

2012-08-26 Thread Doug Barton
On 08/26/2012 11:58, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 11:39:07AM -0700, Doug Barton wrote: >> On 08/26/2012 05:58, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: >> >>> The is the longer plan but this with also true with pkg_add -r, and the pkg >>> bootstrap may it be pkg-bootstrap or /usr/sbin/pkg.

Re: pkgng suggestion: renaming /usr/sbin/pkg to /usr/sbin/pkg-bootstrap

2012-08-26 Thread Baptiste Daroussin
On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 11:39:07AM -0700, Doug Barton wrote: > On 08/26/2012 05:58, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > > > The is the longer plan but this with also true with pkg_add -r, and the pkg > > bootstrap may it be pkg-bootstrap or /usr/sbin/pkg. We have been discussing > > with > > Security off

Re: pkgng suggestion: renaming /usr/sbin/pkg to /usr/sbin/pkg-bootstrap

2012-08-26 Thread Doug Barton
On 08/26/2012 05:58, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > The is the longer plan but this with also true with pkg_add -r, and the pkg > bootstrap may it be pkg-bootstrap or /usr/sbin/pkg. We have been discussing > with > Security officers and we are waiting for the plan being written and setup by > them,

Re: pkgng suggestion: renaming /usr/sbin/pkg to /usr/sbin/pkg-bootstrap

2012-08-26 Thread Doug Barton
On 08/26/2012 11:37, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 11:34:08AM -0700, Doug Barton wrote: >> On 08/25/2012 02:49, Julien Laffaye wrote: >>> True. But when you create jails without the installer, you have >>> to install pkgng by hand. >> >> Just like all the other ports you have

Re: pkgng suggestion: renaming /usr/sbin/pkg to /usr/sbin/pkg-bootstrap

2012-08-26 Thread Baptiste Daroussin
On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 11:34:08AM -0700, Doug Barton wrote: > On 08/25/2012 02:49, Julien Laffaye wrote: > > True. But when you create jails without the installer, you have to > > install pkgng by hand. > > Just like all the other ports you have to install in a jail. > > > -- > > I am on

Re: pkgng suggestion: renaming /usr/sbin/pkg to /usr/sbin/pkg-bootstrap

2012-08-26 Thread Doug Barton
On 08/25/2012 02:49, Julien Laffaye wrote: > True. But when you create jails without the installer, you have to > install pkgng by hand. Just like all the other ports you have to install in a jail. -- I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I

Re: pkgng suggestion: renaming /usr/sbin/pkg to /usr/sbin/pkg-bootstrap

2012-08-26 Thread Baptiste Daroussin
On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 02:26:50PM +0200, Jilles Tjoelker wrote: > On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 06:34:43PM -0500, CyberLeo Kitsana wrote: > > On 08/24/2012 07:01 PM, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > > > Can anyone give me he details on the security related problem? > > > Off the top of my head, it seems to

Re: pkgng suggestion: renaming /usr/sbin/pkg to /usr/sbin/pkg-bootstrap

2012-08-26 Thread Jilles Tjoelker
On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 06:34:43PM -0500, CyberLeo Kitsana wrote: > On 08/24/2012 07:01 PM, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > > Can anyone give me he details on the security related problem? > Off the top of my head, it seems to represent a break in the chain of > trust: how does the bootstrapper verify

Re: pkgng suggestion: renaming /usr/sbin/pkg to /usr/sbin/pkg-bootstrap

2012-08-25 Thread CyberLeo Kitsana
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/24/2012 07:01 PM, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > Can anyone give me he details on the security related problem? Off the top of my head, it seems to represent a break in the chain of trust: how does the bootstrapper verify that the tarball it just d

Re: pkgng suggestion: renaming /usr/sbin/pkg to /usr/sbin/pkg-bootstrap

2012-08-25 Thread Julien Laffaye
On 8/24/2012 11:57 PM, Doug Barton wrote: On 8/23/2012 8:03 PM, Eitan Adler wrote: On 23 August 2012 22:59, Doug Barton wrote: I tend to agree with Steve here ... we can't be responsible for other people's poorly written docs. This isn't about poorly written docs. This is the user expecting a

Re: pkgng suggestion: renaming /usr/sbin/pkg to /usr/sbin/pkg-bootstrap

2012-08-24 Thread Doug Barton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 8/24/2012 5:33 PM, Glen Barber wrote: > On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 01:25:15AM +0100, Jonathan Anderson wrote: >> On 24 Aug 2012, at 23:38, Doug Barton wrote: >>> Let me rephrase that more simply ... very few users are ever going to >>> need the boot

Re: pkgng suggestion: renaming /usr/sbin/pkg to /usr/sbin/pkg-bootstrap

2012-08-24 Thread Glen Barber
On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 01:47:26AM +0100, Jonathan Anderson wrote: > On Saturday, 25 August 2012 at 01:33, Glen Barber wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 01:25:15AM +0100, Jonathan Anderson wrote: > > > On 24 Aug 2012, at 23:38, Doug Barton > > (mailto:do...@freebsd.org)> wrote: > > > > Let me rep

Re: pkgng suggestion: renaming /usr/sbin/pkg to /usr/sbin/pkg-bootstrap

2012-08-24 Thread Jonathan Anderson
On Saturday, 25 August 2012 at 01:33, Glen Barber wrote: > On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 01:25:15AM +0100, Jonathan Anderson wrote: > > On 24 Aug 2012, at 23:38, Doug Barton > (mailto:do...@freebsd.org)> wrote: > > > Let me rephrase that more simply ... very few users are ever going to > > > need the bo

Re: pkgng suggestion: renaming /usr/sbin/pkg to /usr/sbin/pkg-bootstrap

2012-08-24 Thread Glen Barber
On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 01:25:15AM +0100, Jonathan Anderson wrote: > On 24 Aug 2012, at 23:38, Doug Barton wrote: > > Let me rephrase that more simply ... very few users are ever going to > > need the bootstrapping tool that will be in the base. > So, then they won't use it. I fail to see the p

Re: pkgng suggestion: renaming /usr/sbin/pkg to /usr/sbin/pkg-bootstrap

2012-08-24 Thread Jonathan Anderson
On 24 Aug 2012, at 23:38, Doug Barton wrote: > Let me rephrase that more simply ... very few users are ever going to > need the bootstrapping tool that will be in the base. But surely the whole point of pkgng is that people *will* use pkg as the default method of acquiring third-party software,

Re: pkgng suggestion: renaming /usr/sbin/pkg to /usr/sbin/pkg-bootstrap

2012-08-24 Thread Baptiste Daroussin
On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 03:38:33PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > On 8/24/2012 1:15 AM, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > > BTW for people who haven't tested and want to share their opinion, > > here is how work /usr/sbin/pkg: > > > > it first checks i

Re: pkgng suggestion: renaming /usr/sbin/pkg to /usr/sbin/pkg-bootstrap

2012-08-24 Thread Doug Barton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 8/24/2012 1:15 AM, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > BTW for people who haven't tested and want to share their opinion, > here is how work /usr/sbin/pkg: > > it first checks if ${LOCALBASE}/sbin/pkg is there - if yes it > directly execute ${LOCALBASE}/

Re: pkgng suggestion: renaming /usr/sbin/pkg to /usr/sbin/pkg-bootstrap

2012-08-24 Thread Doug Barton
On 8/23/2012 8:03 PM, Eitan Adler wrote: > On 23 August 2012 22:59, Doug Barton wrote: >> I tend to agree with Steve here ... we can't be responsible for other >> people's poorly written docs. > > This isn't about poorly written docs. This is the user expecting a > tool to exist, which doesn't.

Re: pkgng suggestion: renaming /usr/sbin/pkg to /usr/sbin/pkg-bootstrap

2012-08-24 Thread Bryan Drewery
On 8/24/2012 11:02 AM, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 10:50:30AM -0500, Bryan Drewery wrote: >> On 8/24/2012 9:31 AM, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: >>> On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 02:23:47PM +0200, Alex Dupre wrote: Baptiste Daroussin ha scritto: > On of the thing I forgo

Re: pkgng suggestion: renaming /usr/sbin/pkg to /usr/sbin/pkg-bootstrap

2012-08-24 Thread Baptiste Daroussin
On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 10:50:30AM -0500, Bryan Drewery wrote: > On 8/24/2012 9:31 AM, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 02:23:47PM +0200, Alex Dupre wrote: > >> Baptiste Daroussin ha scritto: > >> > >>> On of the thing I forgot and kan@ has added is a prompt for the user in >

Re: pkgng suggestion: renaming /usr/sbin/pkg to /usr/sbin/pkg-bootstrap

2012-08-24 Thread Bryan Drewery
On 8/24/2012 9:31 AM, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 02:23:47PM +0200, Alex Dupre wrote: >> Baptiste Daroussin ha scritto: >> >>> On of the thing I forgot and kan@ has added is a prompt for the user in >>> case it >>> is going to bootstrap. >> >> So, removing the prompt will m

Re: pkgng suggestion: renaming /usr/sbin/pkg to /usr/sbin/pkg-bootstrap

2012-08-24 Thread Baptiste Daroussin
On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 02:23:47PM +0200, Alex Dupre wrote: > Baptiste Daroussin ha scritto: > > > On of the thing I forgot and kan@ has added is a prompt for the user in > > case it > > is going to bootstrap. > > So, removing the prompt will make everybody happy? :-) > > What about a prompt wi

Re: pkgng suggestion: renaming /usr/sbin/pkg to /usr/sbin/pkg-bootstrap

2012-08-24 Thread Alex Dupre
Baptiste Daroussin ha scritto: > On of the thing I forgot and kan@ has added is a prompt for the user in case > it > is going to bootstrap. So, removing the prompt will make everybody happy? :-) What about a prompt with timeout? "This is the first time pkg is run, I'll start bootstrapping in 10

Re: pkgng suggestion: renaming /usr/sbin/pkg to /usr/sbin/pkg-bootstrap

2012-08-24 Thread Florian Smeets
On 08/24/2012 10:15, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 06:19:57PM -0400, Steve Wills wrote: >> Hi, >> >> It seems to me that renaming the pkg binary in /usr/sbin/pkg to >> /usr/sbin/pkg-bootstrap would make sense. From a user standpoint, it is >> confusing that running the comma

Re: pkgng suggestion: renaming /usr/sbin/pkg to /usr/sbin/pkg-bootstrap

2012-08-24 Thread Sergey V. Dyatko
On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 23:00:25 -0400 Eitan Adler wrote: > On 23 August 2012 22:55, Steve Wills wrote: > > > As far as I understand it, POLA is about changing existing things: > > okay, so forget POLA. My point is that a user following a how to or > even *our* documentation on how to install som

Re: pkgng suggestion: renaming /usr/sbin/pkg to /usr/sbin/pkg-bootstrap

2012-08-24 Thread Baptiste Daroussin
On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 06:19:57PM -0400, Steve Wills wrote: > Hi, > > It seems to me that renaming the pkg binary in /usr/sbin/pkg to > /usr/sbin/pkg-bootstrap would make sense. From a user standpoint, it is > confusing that running the command gets different results the second time it > is ru

Re: pkgng suggestion: renaming /usr/sbin/pkg to /usr/sbin/pkg-bootstrap

2012-08-24 Thread Julien Laffaye
On 8/24/2012 3:57 AM, Eitan Adler wrote: On 23 August 2012 18:19, Steve Wills wrote: Hi, It seems to me that renaming the pkg binary in /usr/sbin/pkg to /usr/sbin/pkg-bootstrap would make sense. From a user standpoint, it is confusing that running the command gets different results the secon

Re: pkgng suggestion: renaming /usr/sbin/pkg to /usr/sbin/pkg-bootstrap

2012-08-23 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 23 Aug 2012, Eitan Adler wrote: On 23 August 2012 22:55, Steve Wills wrote: As far as I understand it, POLA is about changing existing things: okay, so forget POLA. My point is that a user following a how to or even *our* documentation on how to install something unrelated, like sa

Re: pkgng suggestion: renaming /usr/sbin/pkg to /usr/sbin/pkg-bootstrap

2012-08-23 Thread Eitan Adler
On 23 August 2012 22:59, Doug Barton wrote: > No, POLA refers to not changing long-established practices out from > under the user. forget pola > > I tend to agree with Steve here ... we can't be responsible for other > people's poorly written docs. This isn't about poorly written docs. This is

Re: pkgng suggestion: renaming /usr/sbin/pkg to /usr/sbin/pkg-bootstrap

2012-08-23 Thread Eitan Adler
On 23 August 2012 22:55, Steve Wills wrote: > As far as I understand it, POLA is about changing existing things: okay, so forget POLA. My point is that a user following a how to or even *our* documentation on how to install something unrelated, like say, apache, will be very confused when the d

Re: pkgng suggestion: renaming /usr/sbin/pkg to /usr/sbin/pkg-bootstrap

2012-08-23 Thread Doug Barton
On 8/23/2012 7:23 PM, Eitan Adler wrote: > On 23 August 2012 22:15, Steve Wills wrote: >> On Aug 23, 2012, at 10:08 PM, Eitan Adler wrote: >> >>> On 23 August 2012 22:05, Steve Wills wrote: >>> Why can't one of those steps be to run "pkg-bootstrap"? >>> >>> Because the how-to may not be for

Re: pkgng suggestion: renaming /usr/sbin/pkg to /usr/sbin/pkg-bootstrap

2012-08-23 Thread Steve Wills
On Aug 23, 2012, at 10:23 PM, Eitan Adler wrote: > On 23 August 2012 22:15, Steve Wills wrote: >> On Aug 23, 2012, at 10:08 PM, Eitan Adler wrote: >> >>> On 23 August 2012 22:05, Steve Wills wrote: >>> Why can't one of those steps be to run "pkg-bootstrap"? >>> >>> Because the how-to may

Re: pkgng suggestion: renaming /usr/sbin/pkg to /usr/sbin/pkg-bootstrap

2012-08-23 Thread Eitan Adler
On 23 August 2012 22:15, Steve Wills wrote: > On Aug 23, 2012, at 10:08 PM, Eitan Adler wrote: > >> On 23 August 2012 22:05, Steve Wills wrote: >> >>> Why can't one of those steps be to run "pkg-bootstrap"? >> >> Because the how-to may not be for a new system ;) > > The possibility of bad docs so

Re: pkgng suggestion: renaming /usr/sbin/pkg to /usr/sbin/pkg-bootstrap

2012-08-23 Thread Steve Wills
On Aug 23, 2012, at 10:08 PM, Eitan Adler wrote: > On 23 August 2012 22:05, Steve Wills wrote: > >> Why can't one of those steps be to run "pkg-bootstrap"? > > Because the how-to may not be for a new system ;) The possibility of bad docs somewhere outside of our control, when we can (and I am

Re: pkgng suggestion: renaming /usr/sbin/pkg to /usr/sbin/pkg-bootstrap

2012-08-23 Thread Eitan Adler
On 23 August 2012 22:05, Steve Wills wrote: > Why can't one of those steps be to run "pkg-bootstrap"? Because the how-to may not be for a new system ;) -- Eitan Adler ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listin

Re: pkgng suggestion: renaming /usr/sbin/pkg to /usr/sbin/pkg-bootstrap

2012-08-23 Thread Steve Wills
On Aug 23, 2012, at 9:57 PM, Eitan Adler wrote: > On 23 August 2012 18:19, Steve Wills wrote: >> Hi, >> >> It seems to me that renaming the pkg binary in /usr/sbin/pkg to >> /usr/sbin/pkg-bootstrap would make sense. From a user standpoint, it is >> confusing that running the command gets diff

Re: pkgng suggestion: renaming /usr/sbin/pkg to /usr/sbin/pkg-bootstrap

2012-08-23 Thread Eitan Adler
On 23 August 2012 18:19, Steve Wills wrote: > Hi, > > It seems to me that renaming the pkg binary in /usr/sbin/pkg to > /usr/sbin/pkg-bootstrap would make sense. From a user standpoint, it is > confusing that running the command gets different results the second time it > is run vs. the first t

Re: pkgng suggestion: renaming /usr/sbin/pkg to /usr/sbin/pkg-bootstrap

2012-08-23 Thread Alexander Kabaev
On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 18:19:57 -0400 Steve Wills wrote: > Hi, > > It seems to me that renaming the pkg binary in /usr/sbin/pkg > to /usr/sbin/pkg-bootstrap would make sense. From a user standpoint, > it is confusing that running the command gets different results the > second time it is run vs. th

Re: pkgng suggestion: renaming /usr/sbin/pkg to /usr/sbin/pkg-bootstrap

2012-08-23 Thread Patrick Lamaiziere
Le Fri, 24 Aug 2012 00:27:13 +0200, Baptiste Daroussin a écrit : Hello, > > So, opinions? There may still be time to fix it for 9.1 if we can > > decide quickly. > > > I do personnally have no opinion on this, I have hesitated long > between both before choosing /usr/sbin/pkg. > > I'm interest

Re: pkgng suggestion: renaming /usr/sbin/pkg to /usr/sbin/pkg-bootstrap

2012-08-23 Thread Bryan Drewery
On 8/23/2012 5:38 PM, Bryan Drewery wrote: > But if we rename, when and who runs it? Will we update bsd.port.mk to > run it if needed? Duh, ports-mgmt/pkg is already a PKG_DEPENDS in ports. So it gets pulled in with WITH_PKGNG. Bryan ___ freebsd-ports@f

Re: pkgng suggestion: renaming /usr/sbin/pkg to /usr/sbin/pkg-bootstrap

2012-08-23 Thread Bryan Drewery
On 8/23/2012 5:19 PM, Steve Wills wrote: > Hi, > > It seems to me that renaming the pkg binary in /usr/sbin/pkg to > /usr/sbin/pkg-bootstrap would make sense. From a user standpoint, it is > confusing that running the command gets different results the second time it > is run vs. the first time

Re: pkgng suggestion: renaming /usr/sbin/pkg to /usr/sbin/pkg-bootstrap

2012-08-23 Thread Doug Barton
On 8/23/2012 3:19 PM, Steve Wills wrote: > Hi, > > It seems to me that renaming the pkg binary in /usr/sbin/pkg to > /usr/sbin/pkg-bootstrap would make sense. From a user standpoint, it is > confusing that running the command gets different results the second time it > is run vs. the first time

Re: pkgng suggestion: renaming /usr/sbin/pkg to /usr/sbin/pkg-bootstrap

2012-08-23 Thread Baptiste Daroussin
On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 06:19:57PM -0400, Steve Wills wrote: > Hi, > > It seems to me that renaming the pkg binary in /usr/sbin/pkg to > /usr/sbin/pkg-bootstrap would make sense. From a user standpoint, it is > confusing that running the command gets different results the second time it > is ru

pkgng suggestion: renaming /usr/sbin/pkg to /usr/sbin/pkg-bootstrap

2012-08-23 Thread Steve Wills
Hi, It seems to me that renaming the pkg binary in /usr/sbin/pkg to /usr/sbin/pkg-bootstrap would make sense. From a user standpoint, it is confusing that running the command gets different results the second time it is run vs. the first time. I can imagine a user saying "I ran pkg, but it didn