Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 19:36:44 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper <yanefbsd@gmail.com> To: Warner Losh <imp@freebsd.org> Cc: svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r209513 - in head: etc/mtree usr.sbin usr.sbin/pc-sysinstall usr.sbin/pc-sysinstall/backend usr.sbin/pc-sysinstall/backend-partmanager usr.sbin/pc-sysinstall/backend-query usr.sbin/pc-s... Message-ID: <AANLkTimnKRa_iBN1nYKs5YxV-WRbrv5FpdWKwWYt9c_H@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201006242221.o5OMLljr017477@svn.freebsd.org> References: <201006242221.o5OMLljr017477@svn.freebsd.org>
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On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 3:21 PM, Warner Losh <imp@freebsd.org> wrote: > Author: imp > Date: Thu Jun 24 22:21:47 2010 > New Revision: 209513 > URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/209513 > > Log: > Bring in Kris Moore's pc-sysinstall shell script from PC-BSD. This > shell script is the back end logic necessary for an installer. It > contains both query routines to allow a front-end installer to present > reasonable choices to the user and also action routines which allow > the front end installer to put a FreeBSD distribution onto a disk. It > supports installing onto the usual suspects, as well as advanced > features like Mirroring, ZFS, Encryprion and GPT labels. > > While this is only the back-end of the installer, it can do unattended > scripted installations. In PC-BSD's world view, all installations are > scripted and all the front-end does is write the script. As such, it > is useful in its own right. > > This has been extensively tested over the past several releases of > PC-BSD. However, differences between that environment and FreeBSD > suggest there will be a period of shake-out while those differences > are discovered and corrected. > > A text-based front-end is in the works. For the GUI-based front-end, > you can use the PC-BSD distribution. > > Kris' BSDcan paper on pc-sysinstall is linked off his talk on the > BSDcan site: > http://www.bsdcan.org/2010/schedule/events/173.en.html > > The man page is written by Josh Paetzel, and I wrote the Makefiles for > the FreeBSD integration. Kris wrote the rest. > > This represents version r7010 in the PC-BSD repo. > http://svn.pcbsd.org/pcbsd/current/pc-sysinstall > > Submitted by: kris@ > Sponsored by: iX Systems Maybe now would be a good time to introduce build tunables for adding/removing pc-sysinstall and/or sysinstall, like pkg_install has? Thanks, -Garrett
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