From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jul 12 12:32:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-63-207-60-73.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [63.207.60.73]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EC7537B401 for ; Thu, 12 Jul 2001 12:32:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 15FAF66B6E; Thu, 12 Jul 2001 12:32:54 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 12:32:53 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway To: Terry Lambert Cc: Giorgos Keramidas , Bill Moran , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Mall now BSDCentral Message-ID: <20010712123253.C6019@xor.obsecurity.org> 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> <3B4B2D67.574C53D4@mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="pAwQNkOnpTn9IO2O" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3B4B2D67.574C53D4@mindspring.com>; from tlambert2@mindspring.com on Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 09:29:27AM -0700 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 --pAwQNkOnpTn9IO2O Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 09:29:27AM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: > Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > > 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. >=20 > BTW: >=20 > I would settle for being able to select between base > system components that are default (e.g. "bind" and > "sendmail" and "perl", etc.), and those components > from ports (e.g. "djbdns", and "postfix" and "newer > than base version of perl") on an equivalency basis, > but I don't see how you would manage this without the > registration of base system components into the same > configuration management system as the replacements > you are permitted to select from for any given service > or role. As you know there are preparations being made to allow this through the modularisation of /etc/rc. See my other message about registration of sysinstall distributions -- it doesn't solve the problem of fine-grained separation of components, but the first step is to get it working on the current, coarse-grained scale. Kris --pAwQNkOnpTn9IO2O 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 iD8DBQE7TftkWry0BWjoQKURAoFVAKCjyoJnLgR05eV2e4YKUVojjPwEDQCfSnL/ MBz4kwek4JTB34QRbbGWTeg= =maJy -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --pAwQNkOnpTn9IO2O-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message