Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 17:35:05 -0500 (CDT) From: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/sysinstall config.c Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0504121703060.2977-100000@pancho> In-Reply-To: <200504121315.47608.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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On Tue, 12 Apr 2005, John Baldwin wrote: > That's the problem. What other algorithm are you going to propose than > first-match? I don't know, exactly. There are only 5 hard-coded strings being passed to package_add. Let me think out loud. The crudest approach would be to create something like latestPackages.h which would have #define LATEST_PACKAGE_LINUX_BASE "linux_base-8" and that at least gets the magic out of the C code. A recompile is still needed, though. This is gross but low-risk. The next approach would be to prefix each of those 5 calls by a new call, get_latest_link, which would walk a list of pairs of strings and either return the righthand side if the lefthand side matched, or the original argument, and then come up with some file format like linux_base|linux_base-8 to initialize the set of strings. Then, of course, you have to read that file, deal with it being missing, blah blah blah. Neither approach seems particularly attractive but anything more thorough would be a lot heavier weight. Since I'm several weeks behind in my own committments, all I could do is offer to whip up patches for the first approach and see if I can generate exactly the same bits from the compile. mcl
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