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Date:      Thu, 13 Nov 1997 20:41:15 GMT
From:      rbriggs@ase.dowjones.com (Robert_Briggs)
To:        Tom <tom@uniserve.com>
Cc:        Kingson Gunawan <kingson@excite.com>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: problem with /stand/sysinstall
Message-ID:  <346b6406.774348046@mail>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971113103158.9680D-100000@shell.uniserve.com>
References:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.971113103158.9680D-100000@shell.uniserve.com>

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On Thu, 13 Nov 1997 10:34:30 -0800 (PST), you wrote:

>> >> It seems that my -current sysinstall copy is looking for the 971022-SNAP
>> >> distribution which is no longer there.  

>> 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.
>

It could at least be smart enough to realize that while perhaps there
isn't a 971022-SNAP dist. available, there are the newer 971106, ...,
971112 releases available.  

"971022-SNAP not found. newer 971112-SNAP found.  Use it, instead?"

Or, how about just a CURRENT-SNAP symlinked to the most recent
release?  No change to sysinstall, except to always look for CURRENT,
and a trivial^H^H^H^H^H relatively simple change to the SNAP roll out
make file.

===Bob Briggs



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