cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/sysinstall config.c

[John Baldwin]

On Tuesday 12 April 2005 01:05 pm, Mark Linimon wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Apr 2005, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> > John Baldwin <jhb at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> > >  Modified files:
> > >    usr.sbin/sysinstall  config.c
> > >  Log:
> > >  Explicitly install linux_base 8 to make sure the right version is
> > >  installed.
> >
> > Any ideas how to help sysinstall to get the right one without hardcoding
> > it? Some hints in the linux_base* ports?
>
> IIRC from my reading the followup to some of these sysinstall PRs
> (possibly a little bit fuzzy), there is a general problem where
> sysinstall assumes the first port matching regex is to be installed.
> I believe the cited case was postfix.
>
> If this is the case, then wiring up logic just to fix the linux_base
> case isn't really fixing the general case.
>
> John, am I completely talking nonsense here?
>
> Clearly we don't want to have a list of this stuff hard-coded in
> sysinstall -- that's just begging for bitrot -- but I don't have any
> better suggestion at the moment.

That's the problem.  What other algorithm are you going to propose than 
first-match?

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