From owner-freebsd-current Thu Nov 13 10:34:51 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA05718 for current-outgoing; Thu, 13 Nov 1997 10:34:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current) Received: from pop.uniserve.com (pop.uniserve.com [204.244.156.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id KAA05710 for ; Thu, 13 Nov 1997 10:34:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tom@uniserve.com) Received: from shell.uniserve.com [204.244.210.252] by pop.uniserve.com with smtp (Exim 1.73 #1) id 0xW463-0005M0-00; Thu, 13 Nov 1997 10:34:32 -0800 Date: Thu, 13 Nov 1997 10:34:30 -0800 (PST) From: Tom To: Robert_Briggs cc: Kingson Gunawan , freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: problem with /stand/sysinstall In-Reply-To: <346b4593.766553171@mail> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 13 Nov 1997, Robert_Briggs wrote: > On Wed, 12 Nov 1997 17:18:38 -0800 (PST), you wrote: > > > > >On Wed, 12 Nov 1997, Kingson Gunawan wrote: > > > >> It seems that my -current sysinstall copy is looking for the 971022-SNAP > >> distribution which is no longer there. As a result, it is not working > >> anymore when used to install packages. > >> Any idea how get around this? > > > > A "make world" does not update /stand/*. Your /stand/sysinstall is very > >old. I believe you can set the directory in options display. > > > > Or you could just use "pkg_add" > > Is there a way to update /stand/* and/or keep it updated? Only "make release" builds that stuff. That is pretty involved. > It would be nice if sysinstall somehow "knew" what -current is..... Sorry, the ESP interface isn't done yet. Somehow it would have to lock onto Jordon, and determine the last time he rolled a snapshot, in order to determine what package directory to look at. > ===Bob Briggs Tom