From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jul 10 9:39: 2 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net (hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB97737B409 for ; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 09:38:59 -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 hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net (EL-8_9_3_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA07833; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 09:38:50 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3B4B2FBD.5FD419C3@mindspring.com> Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 09:39:25 -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: rsi@panix.com Cc: Jordan Hubbard , tlambert@primenet.com, wmoran@iowna.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Mall now BSDCentral References: <200107100342.UAA13676@usr01.primenet.com> <20010709213102G.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> <200107100731.f6A7VxR05700@panix1.panix.com> 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 Rajappa Iyer wrote: > > Well, I'd sorta like to *see* them before writing the coding > > equivalent of a blank check, but given reasonably functional > > implementations, sure, I'd be happy to commit your "sysinstall > > mountpoint auto-discovery" and "release package metadata" > > enhancements. > > One of the nice things I like about FreeBSD (and I daresay I'm not > alone in this) is that when I install it, I know that I'll get a > kernel with a corresponding full and functional userland. I see the > packaging of this `base system' as a bunch of (meta)packages as the > thin edge of the wedge---pretty soon FreeBSD will resemble the > hodge-podge collection of different (often conflicting) packages that > Linux is. That would be an option, but it would certianly not be the default. I can install a lot of stuff today that I would claim would put my system in the "hodge-podge" category, most of them from ports, some of them from the net. PS: Note that you only get a kernel if you create your release from the GENERIC config; using a different config with the "make release" process results in a CDROM that boots and installs your "/kernel.MYCONFIG", but doesn't do the final step of copying that file to "/kernel", which renderes the resulting system unbootable. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message