>Number:         16638
>Category:       pkg
>Synopsis:       most Darwin installs lack a pkgsrc-compatible filesystem
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    pkg-manager
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Fri May 03 11:21:00 PDT 2002
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Amitai Schlair
>Release:        Darwin 5.4
>Organization:
Schmonz Enterprises
>Environment:
Darwin g3.apart.ment 5.4 Darwin Kernel Version 5.4: Wed Apr 10 09:27:47 PDT 2002; root:xnu/xnu-201.19.3.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC  Power Macintosh powerpc
>Description:
Darwin supports two main filesystem types: HFS+ and UFS. The current
consensus is that pkgsrc requires UFS. However, most Darwin systems
are HFS+ and don't have a spare partition to format with UFS. Nor
is there (AFAIK) any easy way to convert from HFS+ to UFS.

(Rationale: The large majority of Darwin systems are factory-installed
Mac OS X, which means the disk is partitioned as one big HFS+. The
remainder are custom installs; the install docs recommend HFS+,
and the installers default to HFS+. Thus the odds are, to put it
delicately, not in our favor.)

>How-To-Repeat:
Given an ordinary Darwin system, attempt to extract pkgsrc.tar.gz
and fail due to filesystem case-insensitivity. Attempt to create
a UFS disk partition and fail for lack of unformatted disk space.
Attempt to prepare a UFS disk image for pkgsrc and fail due to
sub-obvious tools. :-)

>Fix:
I've written a small shell script that provides a sensible interface
to working with UFS disk images on Darwin. The bootstrap kit should
include it in some fashion -- either with instructions for running
it manually, or perhaps by automagically offering to prepare a UFS
disk image if there aren't any mounted UFS filesystems.

It needs a little more work before going in, but here's what I have
so far:

$ ftp http://netbsd.schmonz.com/misc/dmg_create
$ chmod +x dmg_create
$ for i in format mount umount; do ln dmg_create dmg_${i}; done
$ ./dmg_create ufsdisk.dmg 1024    # megabytes
$ ./dmg_format ufsdisk.dmg
$ ./dmg_mount ufsdisk.dmg /path/to/mount/point
$ ./dmg_umount /path/to/mount/point
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