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Date:      Tue, 12 Apr 2005 12:23:38 -0400
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Matteo Riondato <rionda@gufi.org>
Cc:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/sysinstall config.c
Message-ID:  <200504121223.40429.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20050412153553.GC49623@kaiser.sig11.org>
References:  <200504120105.j3C15qlZ043565@repoman.freebsd.org> <20050412145806.GA39557@xor.obsecurity.org> <20050412153553.GC49623@kaiser.sig11.org>

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On Tuesday 12 April 2005 11:35 am, Matteo Riondato wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 07:58:06AM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 04:41:57PM +0200, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> > > John Baldwin <jhb@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?
> > >
> > > I have changes in the pipeline which add DEFAULT_LINUX_BASE to
> > > bsd.port.mk, it will contain a complete dependency (suitable for e.g.
> > > "BUILD_DEPENDS = ${DEFAULT_LINUX_BASE}"), if sysinstall has access to
> > > bsd.port.mk it could do "make -f /path/to/bsd.port.mk -V
> > > DEFAULT_LINUX_BASE USE_LINUX=yes" and parse the output (when the change
> > > is committet).
> >
> > It doesn't..this will probably just have to be tracked by hand.
>
> I would say that if all linux ports depend on the same linux_base port,
> there wouldn't be more than one linux_base-X package in a -RELEASE CD,
> so when during installation, we want to add linux_base, we'll always add
> the right one (because there'll be only one in the CD).
> The bug appeared on one of the last RELEASEs (see the PR, I seem to
> remember that it was 5.3-RELEASE) because there were some ports
> (actually _2_) that depended on linux_base-6, so linux_base-6 was
> included in the CD and, when the user wanted to add "linux_base",
> linux_base-6 was chosen instead of linux_base-7 because "6" comes
> before "7".

Installs over FTP use the full INDEX that lists all the packages, so they need 
this regardless of the CD contents.

> Please note that the Postfix package depends on a similar hack too (see
> usr.sbin/sysinstall/config.c, line 993).

Yep.  It had it specifically for the FTP case.

-- 
John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>  <><  http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/
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