Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 03:42:47 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: jkh@osd.bsdi.com Cc: wmoran@iowna.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Mall now BSDCentral Message-ID: <200107100342.UAA13676@usr01.primenet.com>
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] > The base system is not registered into the packages ] > system, because of sysinstall. ] ] As usual, you have no idea what you're talking about. The base system ] isn't registered into the package system because the base system isn't ] PROVIDED as a package nor does it come with the right meta-information ] to enable anything, much less sysinstall, to easily fake things out. That's what I said, only I was more terse. ] In other words, this isn't a sysinstall issue, it's a release building ] issue and you're free to change to the release building stuff to fix ] this if you like. Will you commit the changes? ] I'm sure you'll also say that since your tiny patch ] to enable alternate kernels wasn't adopted then it clearly isn't worth ] your while to do any significant work, but that's just not how the ] equation works. Something substantial which truly lowers the pain ] threshold in dealing with FreeBSD actually stands a greater chance of ] making it in than a small fix which is useful only to you and a ] handful of PAO developers, so you're still encouraged to put your ] money where your mouth is and not simply bat this ball back with ] some excuse as to why it isn't feasible or attractive. Go on, it ] would be a welcome change of character! :) You're on quite the tear today, aren't you? I'd still like to see the patch I made for alternate kernel configuration files committed, of course, since it can't hurt you, it's generally benign, and it helps others. But it hasn't stopped me from posting other patches. Some make it in, some don't. If I have the time to invest in it, and it's useful, then I'll probably get around to doing the metadata for the registration of base system components. Would you commit a patch to move the compiled in metadata out into an external file, as a first run at being able to register arbitrary programs into the package management system via data files? Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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