From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Sep 18 10:53:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from winston.freebsd.org (adsl-64-173-15-98.dsl.sntc01.pacbell.net [64.173.15.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D75F37B407 for ; Tue, 18 Sep 2001 10:53:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (jkh@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by winston.freebsd.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id f8IHqUO04715; Tue, 18 Sep 2001 10:52:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@freebsd.org) To: bsd@bsdhome.com Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Version of XFree86 in FreeBSD Release 4.4 In-Reply-To: <20010918133906.B65488@neutrino.bsdhome.com> References: <20010917172408.A93860@dragon.nuxi.com> <20010917174811J.jkh@freebsd.org> <20010918133906.B65488@neutrino.bsdhome.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 1.94.1 on Emacs 20.7 / Mule 4.0 (HANANOEN) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20010918105230S.jkh@freebsd.org> Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 10:52:30 -0700 From: Jordan Hubbard X-Dispatcher: imput version 20000228(IM140) Lines: 26 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 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message