Ideas for packaging FreeBSD binaries

[Robin Elfrink]

Aurelien Jarno wrote:

> Well the other possibility is also to get the sources from CVS, it's the
> way the kernel and freebsd5-buildutils are done.

Is that preferable? What does one know of stability/security in CVS? Or
would you just point at a certain branch/tag ?


> On another side, a too big source package will be difficult to maintain.
> What about make one source package by category. For example:
> 
> freebsd-netutils: pf, ifconfig, netstat, route, ...
> freebsd-hwutils: atacontrol, kbdcontrol, disklabel, ...
> freebsd-kernelutils: kldutils, ktrace, mdconfig, dmesg, sysctl, ...
> 
> The exact names and the contents of the differents binaries packages
> could vary, but here is the idea.

Well, /sbin binaries in FreeBSD come from one tarball, so that's the one
I used (and that's why my source package is named 'freebsd-sbin').



Robin