From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jul 9 16:55:19 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from winston.freebsd.org (adsl-64-173-15-98.dsl.sntc01.pacbell.net [64.173.15.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2779937B401 for ; Mon, 9 Jul 2001 16:55:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@osd.bsdi.com) Received: from localhost (jkh@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by winston.freebsd.org (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id f69Nt8t09021; Mon, 9 Jul 2001 16:55:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@osd.bsdi.com) To: tlambert2@mindspring.com Cc: wmoran@iowna.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Mall now BSDCentral In-Reply-To: <3B4A1423.E8E365E@mindspring.com> References: <3B49F8D5.2C9BFA73@mindspring.com> <3B4A0124.26025FB5@iowna.com> <3B4A1423.E8E365E@mindspring.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 1.94.1 on Emacs 20.7 / Mule 4.0 (HANANOEN) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20010709165508S.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2001 16:55:08 -0700 From: Jordan Hubbard X-Dispatcher: imput version 20000228(IM140) Lines: 26 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG From: Terry Lambert Subject: Re: FreeBSD Mall now BSDCentral Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2001 13:29:23 -0700 > The base system is not registered into the packages > system, because of sysinstall. As usual, you have no idea what you're talking about. The base system isn't registered into the package system because the base system isn't PROVIDED as a package nor does it come with the right meta-information to enable anything, much less sysinstall, to easily fake things out. In other words, this isn't a sysinstall issue, it's a release building issue and you're free to change to the release building stuff to fix this if you like. I'm sure you'll also say that since your tiny patch to enable alternate kernels wasn't adopted then it clearly isn't worth your while to do any significant work, but that's just not how the equation works. Something substantial which truly lowers the pain threshold in dealing with FreeBSD actually stands a greater chance of making it in than a small fix which is useful only to you and a handful of PAO developers, so you're still encouraged to put your money where your mouth is and not simply bat this ball back with some excuse as to why it isn't feasible or attractive. Go on, it would be a welcome change of character! :) - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message