Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 17:35:50 -0400 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Scott Long <scott_long@btc.adaptec.com>, Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.1-BETA: miniinst.iso missing perl5 pkg Message-ID: <p05210617bae863c565ff@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <3EC1A95E.7040509@btc.adaptec.com> References: <Law10-OE34ebT9s4ddq0000d8b6@hotmail.com> <3EC18AA5.7080307@btc.adaptec.com> <200305140214.h4E2EjdF027566@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <3EC1A95E.7040509@btc.adaptec.com>
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At 8:26 PM -0600 5/13/03, Scott Long wrote: >Garrett Wollman wrote: >>Scott Long <scott_long@btc.adaptec.com> said: >> >>>The miniinst CD is meant to be the bare minimum to install >>>the system for those that are bandwidth-challenged. It >>>contains *NO* packages at all, including perl5. >> >> >>However, perl5 is still a standard part of the system (as >>witness the fact that sysinstall looks for it for most of >>the canned setups); it's just delivered as a package now >>rather than a dist. It should be on any disc image that >>has the base system installer bits, ... >> >>-GAWollman > >This of course highlights yet another entry in the long list >of sysinstall neglect and shortcomings. I'm not sure what >the better choice is for 5.1, attempt to make sysinstall >smarter, or just include the perl package on the miniiso. >Suggestions? Speaking only wrt the 5.1 release, I think we should include perl on the disc image, even for the mini-install ISO. We are already into the code-freeze for 5.1, and (IMO) we have a long list of things which are much more important to finish for that release than to *START* some project to address the many shortcomings of sysinstall. However, it would be a very good idea to list the fixing of sysinstall as an explicit requirement for 5.2-release. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu
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