Date: Thu, 13 Nov 1997 20:41:15 GMT From: rbriggs@ase.dowjones.com (Robert_Briggs) To: Tom <tom@uniserve.com> Cc: Kingson Gunawan <kingson@excite.com>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: problem with /stand/sysinstall Message-ID: <346b6406.774348046@mail> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971113103158.9680D-100000@shell.uniserve.com> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971113103158.9680D-100000@shell.uniserve.com>
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On Thu, 13 Nov 1997 10:34:30 -0800 (PST), you wrote: >> >> It seems that my -current sysinstall copy is looking for the 971022-SNAP >> >> distribution which is no longer there. >> It would be nice if sysinstall somehow "knew" what -current is..... > > Sorry, the ESP interface isn't done yet. Somehow it would have to lock >onto Jordon, and determine the last time he rolled a snapshot, in order to >determine what package directory to look at. > It could at least be smart enough to realize that while perhaps there isn't a 971022-SNAP dist. available, there are the newer 971106, ..., 971112 releases available. "971022-SNAP not found. newer 971112-SNAP found. Use it, instead?" Or, how about just a CURRENT-SNAP symlinked to the most recent release? No change to sysinstall, except to always look for CURRENT, and a trivial^H^H^H^H^H relatively simple change to the SNAP roll out make file. ===Bob Briggs
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