FreeBSD ala Folsom

So, this is my first post to my FreeBSD blog. In here I’ll discuss my triumphs, tribulations, and the entire learning process of my SoC 2007 project, of which it’s comprised of several mini-projects:

1. Revise FreeBSD’s package tools (pkg_*) to use a BDB hash table backend.


2. Write a common Bourne shell frontend for all pkg_* tools to help unify ports and package management.


3. Create virtuals for packages included in the base system.


4. Backport all completed items to 5.x and 6.x if possible.

1. is definitely my first priority goal and will probably take me around 2 months to complete, but I don’t plan on skimping on the other two goals.

For now I need to play with INDEX.7, and db.h / BDB 1.85 documentation (included in /usr/src/lib/libc/db/docs I discovered thanks to Kris@ :)...).

Until next I blog..