BSDCan2015 - ZH
BSDCan 2015
The Technical BSD Conference
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Baptiste Daroussin |
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| Day | Talks #2 - 13 June - 2015-06-13 |
| Room | DMS 1160 |
| Start time | 15:00 |
| Duration | 01:00 |
| Info | |
| ID | 563 |
| Event type | Lecture |
| Track | Hacking |
| Language used for presentation | English |
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Packaging FreeBSD base system
A rainbow bikeshed
Use pkg(8) to distribute, install and upgrade the FreeBSD base system.
This talk will describe why packaging the base system, and what is/was need to be done to allow packaging the base system: - Prerequisite changes made in pkg(8) to allow handling the base particularities - Prerequisite changes made or needed in base build system to be able to create sane packages - Granularity of the packaging - Plans to satisfy most of our users: embedded who wants small packages, old timers who wants big fat packages, administrators who wants flexibility, developers who wants to be able to provides custom packages for large testings and all others. - What new possibilities/features will packaging base offer to users.