Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 10:03:14 +0100 (BST) From: Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk> To: John Baldwin <jhb@pike.osd.bsdi.com> Cc: "David J. Kanter" <djkanter@northwestern.edu>, questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Why isn't sysinstall built with buildworld? Message-ID: <Pine.GHP.4.21.0007261001510.5537-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <200007260514.WAA25549@pike.osd.bsdi.com>
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On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, John Baldwin wrote: > David J. Kanter wrote: > > I know that make buildworld builds all the base binaries, but I've read that > > a program like sysinstall isn't built. What else out there isn't built > > during make buildworld? > > sysinstall is the only one, AFAIK. > > > Why isn't sysinstall built; isn't it a part of the base system? > > Well, the real answer is that it probably _should_ be built with the rest > of the world and should probably move into sbin or some such. As I understand it there's a new, much more scriptable* version of the installer/package manager in the pipeline; presumably sysinstall will be phased out in preference to this. If that's the case, it ought to go into the main buildworld. jan * tcl-based? -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287163 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 RFC822 jan.grant@bris.ac.uk Usenet: The separation of content AND presentation - simultaneously. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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