From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jul 10 9:29: 2 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from gull.mail.pas.earthlink.net (gull.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.121.85]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3E6137B406 for ; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 09:28:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from mindspring.com (dialup-209.247.143.76.Dial1.SanJose1.Level3.net [209.247.143.76]) by gull.mail.pas.earthlink.net (EL-8_9_3_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA04038; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 09:28:51 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3B4B2D67.574C53D4@mindspring.com> Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 09:29:27 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Reply-To: tlambert2@mindspring.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Giorgos Keramidas Cc: Bill Moran , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Mall now BSDCentral References: <20010706144935.A61843@xor.obsecurity.org> <3B4650D0.97F10B83@bellatlantic.net> <20010707002340.B16071@widomaker.com> <20010707004731V.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> <3B49F8D5.2C9BFA73@mindspring.com> <3B4A0124.26025FB5@iowna.com> <3B4A1423.E8E365E@mindspring.com> <86ofqth6p3.fsf@hades.hell.gr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > The base system is not registered into the packages > > system, because of sysinstall. > > It's not installed from /usr/ports but from /usr/src. > I don't know if it's a good idea to have a huge > freebsd_base-5.0-current-20010624 in the packages list, or a zillion > freebsd_base-bin, freebsd_base-etc, etc. installed. BTW: I would settle for being able to select between base system components that are default (e.g. "bind" and "sendmail" and "perl", etc.), and those components from ports (e.g. "djbdns", and "postfix" and "newer than base version of perl") on an equivalency basis, but I don't see how you would manage this without the registration of base system components into the same configuration management system as the replacements you are permitted to select from for any given service or role. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message