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Date:      Tue, 18 Sep 2001 10:52:30 -0700
From:      Jordan Hubbard <jkh@freebsd.org>
To:        bsd@bsdhome.com
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Version of XFree86 in FreeBSD Release 4.4
Message-ID:  <20010918105230S.jkh@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20010918133906.B65488@neutrino.bsdhome.com>
References:  <20010917172408.A93860@dragon.nuxi.com> <20010917174811J.jkh@freebsd.org> <20010918133906.B65488@neutrino.bsdhome.com>

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This is only one of many different areas in which sysinstall is
insufficiently dynamic.  Patches, as always, are cheerfully
accepted. :)

- Jordan

> On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 05:48:11PM -0700, Jordan Hubbard wrote:
> > No, 3.3.6.  There is no such thing as 3.3.7 (at least not according to
> > www.xfree86.org) and even if there were, enough version-number
> > specifics are encoded into sysinstall that I would had to have been
> > told at least a week or two ago if any such version number bump were
> > contemplated. :)
> 
> Which reminds me ... shouldn't sysinstall read this kind of
> information from the distribution area instead of hard-coding it
> within sysinstall itself?  This would require "make release" to
> generate some metadata about the release area, but then other
> installers would have easy access to what's available for installation
> as well, and you wouldn't have to modify sysinstall so much when
> things change.
> 
> -Brian
> -- 
> Brian Dean
> bsd@FreeBSD.org
> bsd@bsdhome.com

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