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.
> >
> > 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.
>
> BTW:
>
> 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
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