From owner-freebsd-current Thu Nov 13 12:42:08 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id MAA18592 for current-outgoing; Thu, 13 Nov 1997 12:42:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current) Received: from ns.ase.dowjones.com (ns.ase.dowjones.com [206.112.106.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA18586 for ; Thu, 13 Nov 1997 12:42:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rbriggs@ase.dowjones.com) Received: from CRYSTAL-SINGER.ase.dowjones.com (crystal-singer.ase.dowjones.com [206.112.106.85]) by ns.ase.dowjones.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with SMTP id OAA04155; Thu, 13 Nov 1997 14:41:14 -0600 (CST) From: rbriggs@ase.dowjones.com (Robert_Briggs) To: Tom Cc: Kingson Gunawan , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: problem with /stand/sysinstall Date: Thu, 13 Nov 1997 20:41:15 GMT Message-ID: <346b6406.774348046@mail> References: In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.5/32.451 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id MAA18588 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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