packages-5.X-current & sysinstall

[Yar Tikhiy]

On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 04:58:29PM +0400, Yar Tikhiy wrote:
> 
> A fellow admin reported to me, and I verified, that sysinstall
> cannot install packages from the FTP mirrors in 5.x-current,
> where x > 0, without manual tweaking:
[...] 
> The problem stems from the fact that there is no such subdirectory
> as packages-5.[12...]-current in ports/<arch> on the ftp sites; only
> packages-5.0-current is there.  IMHO there should be symlinks for
> packages-5.[12...]-current to packages-5.0-current as long as the
> packages are shared among all 5.X-CURRENT systems, shouldn't they?
> Personally, I feel that the symlink solution would be more natural
> than hardcoding sysinstall to use `packages-5.0-current' if the
> system is 5.X-CURRENT.

Oops, there was a slip in my previous posting; in fact, sysinstall
tries to access the packages directory on an FTP mirror as
`<mirror root>/releases/<arch>/<release>/packages',
but there are directories for 5.0-CURRENT only, e.g.,
`/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/5.0-CURRENT'.  However, the essence of
the problem remains the same.

-- 
Yar