Re: install/46482: wrong directory to pkgsrc tarball in sysinst

[Julian Fagir <gnrp%komkon2.de@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR install/46482; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Julian Fagir <gnrp%komkon2.de@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: install/46482: wrong directory to pkgsrc tarball in sysinst
Date: Sun, 27 May 2012 01:55:26 +0200

 Hi,
 
 > The download and extract step for pkgsrc fails because 
 > http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/stable/pkgsrc.tgz  does not exist. See
 > http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/stable/ for other options
 > like tar.gz , tar.bz2 , and tar.xz
 > 
 > The menu does not allow choosing file name.
 this could be changed. But should it? We don't allow choosing the rest of the
 filenames, though you could argue that choosing an older pkgsrc release would
 be useful.
 
 > Not a quick fix for me as I saw it uses dist_postfix which is wrong
 > in this case.
 I'm rather interested in what caused this... For pkgsrc-2011Q4, apparently
 there were symlinks created, for the latter ones not.
 Which policy should go first, filenames or namings in sysinst?
 
 Regards, Julian