On Fri, 2005-06-03 at 22:57 +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 03:48:02PM -0500, Jason Boyer wrote:
> > What if the install initially took place in $WORKOBJDIR/inst and that was
> > tar'd up to produce the binary package, and simply mv'd into $LOCALBASE?
> 
> Well, instead of mv something like pax -rw to handle hardlinks and crossing
> mount points, but that was the basic idea. I'll start coding that next weak.

You may want to check something I did a while ago:

ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/jmmv/staged.diff

the intention was to use dynamic PLISTs, but the code also contains
preliminar staged installation.

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