Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 12:02:56 -0700 (MST) From: John Reynolds~ <jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com> To: Adam <bsdx@looksharp.net> Cc: qa@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem with installworld Message-ID: <14707.22624.642889.944961@hip186.ch.intel.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007171451220.25933-100000@turtle.looksharp.net> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007171451220.25933-100000@turtle.looksharp.net>
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[ copying to -qa so that we make sure the problem doesn't exist for 4.1 ] [ On Monday, July 17, Adam wrote: ] > > Did I miss doing something? I'm in the USA but make.conf says I'm not. > I didn't tell it that, so something is jumping the gun. > (I *did* select michigan from the timezone portion, shouldnt that be > enough clue for > sysinstall to guess im in USA? > After editing make.conf so USA_RESIDENT=yes, it works fine. > What about people not in the USA however? > I also saw this with a 4.0 installation I did two weeks ago on a new box at home. USA_RESIDENT was set to "no" by default in /etc. I haven't yet installed the 4.1-RC snap but we should probably make sure that if somebody sets the time zone info (during sysinstall) such that they point to a USA zone that we set USA_RESIDENT=YES in /etc/make.conf, don't you think? I do not know if that is the current behavior or not with the 4.1-RC snap, but shouldn't be? More info a I find it ... -Jr -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= | John Reynolds WCCG, CCE, Higher Levels of Abstraction | | Intel Corporation MS: CH6-210 Phone: 480-554-9092 pgr: 602-868-6512 | | jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com http://www-aec.ch.intel.com/~jreynold/ | =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-qa" in the body of the message
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