From owner-cvs-src@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 12 17:33:20 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-src@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 428E616A4D0 for ; Tue, 12 Apr 2005 17:33:20 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail23.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail23.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.25]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1CEB43D5F for ; Tue, 12 Apr 2005 17:33:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 30436 invoked from network); 12 Apr 2005 17:33:19 -0000 Received: from server.baldwin.cx ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender )AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 12 Apr 2005 17:33:19 -0000 Received: from [131.106.57.68] (p178.n-lapop01.stsn.com [12.129.240.178]) (authenticated bits=0) by server.baldwin.cx (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j3CHXDM5022264; Tue, 12 Apr 2005 13:33:14 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) From: John Baldwin To: Mark Linimon Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 13:15:45 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200504121315.47608.jhb@FreeBSD.org> X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.8 required=4.2 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=failed version=3.0.2 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.2 (2004-11-16) on server.baldwin.cx cc: Alexander Leidinger cc: src-committers@FreeBSD.org cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/sysinstall config.c X-BeenThere: cvs-src@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the src tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 17:33:20 -0000 On Tuesday 12 April 2005 01:05 pm, Mark Linimon wrote: > On Tue, 12 Apr 2005, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > > John Baldwin 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 <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org