Re: pkg_comp HOWTO (Was: pkgsrc)

To: David Brownlee <abs%NetBSD.org@localhost>
Subject: Re: pkg_comp HOWTO (Was: pkgsrc)
From: Masao Uebayashi <uebayasi%gmail.com@localhost>
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 00:29:45 +0900

>> My recurring complaint is the difficulty in upgrading a machine's 
>> /usr/pkg to something newer... The whole pkg_comp thing, once 
>> understood, is cool and does work well... But the road to understanding 
>> is paved with the corpses of dragons...

This leads me to a simple question - why don't we distirute the resulting
/usr/pkg (and others) as pkg.tgz?

Masao

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