Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 13:15:45 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> Cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/sysinstall config.c Message-ID: <200504121315.47608.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0504121201410.30410-100000@pancho> References: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0504121201410.30410-100000@pancho>
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On Tuesday 12 April 2005 01:05 pm, Mark Linimon wrote: > 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. That's the problem. What other algorithm are you going to propose than first-match? -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org
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