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On Tue, 12 Apr 2005, Alexander Leidinger wrote:

> John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> 
> >  Modified files:
> >    usr.sbin/sysinstall  config.c
> >  Log:
> >  Explicitly install linux_base 8 to make sure the right version is
> >  installed.
> 
> Any ideas how to help sysinstall to get the right one without hardcoding it?
> Some hints in the linux_base* ports?

IIRC from my reading the followup to some of these sysinstall PRs
(possibly a little bit fuzzy), there is a general problem where
sysinstall assumes the first port matching regex is to be installed.
I believe the cited case was postfix.

If this is the case, then wiring up logic just to fix the linux_base
case isn't really fixing the general case.

John, am I completely talking nonsense here?

Clearly we don't want to have a list of this stuff hard-coded in
sysinstall -- that's just begging for bitrot -- but I don't have any
better suggestion at the moment.

mcl