Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 12:27:59 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> Cc: tlambert2@mindspring.com, Bill Moran <wmoran@iowna.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Mall now BSDCentral Message-ID: <20010712122759.B6019@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <86ofqth6p3.fsf@hades.hell.gr>; from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr on Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 05:13:44AM %2B0300 References: <20010706144935.A61843@xor.obsecurity.org> <3B4650D0.97F10B83@bellatlantic.net> <20010707002340.B16071@widomaker.com> <20010707004731V.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> <3B49F8D5.2C9BFA73@mindspring.com> <3B4A0124.26025FB5@iowna.com> <3B4A1423.E8E365E@mindspring.com> <86ofqth6p3.fsf@hades.hell.gr>
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--RASg3xLB4tUQ4RcS Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 05:13:44AM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> writes: >=20 > > The base system is not registered into the packages > > system, because of sysinstall. >=20 > It's not installed from /usr/ports but from /usr/src. > I don't know if it's a good idea to have a huge > freebsd_base-5.0-current-20010624 in the packages list, or a zillion > freebsd_base-bin, freebsd_base-etc, etc. installed. FWIW, it would be a pretty trivial matter to fake up package metadata for the sysinstall distributions after they're installed. You'd just generate the plist from the contents of the distribution tarball. This would be useful for deinstalling optional collections like kerberos or the header files, which is currently impossible. Perhaps Terry would like to do this to solve one of the issues on his list: I'll be happy to work with him to get a satisfactory implementation committed. > > X11 is a distribution set, instead of a package. >=20 > But... but... I did install only those parts of X11 that I wanted. > I'm not sure I understand this claim. I'm not sure it's even correct any longer. i.e. I seem to recall X is installed as a package thesedays, not a distribution. Kris --RASg3xLB4tUQ4RcS Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7Tfo/Wry0BWjoQKURAuzEAJ98ctDT+ExCP7avHU6BXIBO7pOOVwCfV1pe h0/24H7vWCSC8hd3Z/oQZOM= =AwOd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --RASg3xLB4tUQ4RcS-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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