Subject: Re: pkg/10835: Package upgrade procedure sucks
To: None <mcmahill@mtl.mit.edu>
From: Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld@orchard.arlington.ma.us>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 08/16/2000 12:50:06
> something like this might not be bad anyway.  OpenBSD has implemented
> something they call "fake" which when building a binary pkg, installs to a
> fake dir (I haven't looked to see if its done via chroot).  Then the PLIST
> is used to tar up the result.  They did it to avoid stuff being installed
> that wasn't correctly listed in PLIST.  

cool.  we should pick this up.

					- Bill