From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 28 15:28:05 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2281106564A; Mon, 28 Feb 2011 15:28:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from cyrus.watson.org (cyrus.watson.org [65.122.17.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70E1B8FC29; Mon, 28 Feb 2011 15:28:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from bigwig.baldwin.cx (66.111.2.69.static.nyinternet.net [66.111.2.69]) by cyrus.watson.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 285E246B2E; Mon, 28 Feb 2011 10:28:05 -0500 (EST) Received: from jhbbsd.localnet (unknown [209.249.190.10]) by bigwig.baldwin.cx (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id BBE8E8A01B; Mon, 28 Feb 2011 10:28:04 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 10:20:12 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (FreeBSD/7.4-CBSD-20110107; KDE/4.4.5; amd64; ; ) References: <4D6BB5E3.6020408@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <4D6BB5E3.6020408@freebsd.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201102281020.12599.jhb@freebsd.org> X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.6 (bigwig.baldwin.cx); Mon, 28 Feb 2011 10:28:04 -0500 (EST) Cc: FreeBSD Arch , Nathan Whitehorn , freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Request for review/testing: switching the default installer X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 15:28:05 -0000 On Monday, February 28, 2011 9:49:07 am Nathan Whitehorn wrote: > BSDinstall has acquired at this point its final form (prior to a future > merge with pc-sysinstall), and I believe is ready to replace sysinstall > on the 9.0 snapshot ISOs. Barring any objections, I would like to pull > this switch 2 weeks from today, on the 14th of March. > > A patch to the release infrastructure code can be found here (make > release must be run with Makefile.bsdinstall using this patch to get > non-sysinstall media): > http://people.freebsd.org/~nwhitehorn/bsdinstall-release.diff Hmm, does your installed world include the pre-built mergemaster database? That should really be preserved. It happens here in the old release Makefile: # Install the system into the various distributions. release.2: cd ${.CURDIR}/.. && ${CROSSMAKE} distrib-dirs DESTDIR=${RD}/trees/base cd ${.CURDIR}/.. && ${CROSSMAKE} ${WORLD_FLAGS} distributeworld \ DISTDIR=${RD}/trees sh ${.CURDIR}/scripts/mm-mtree.sh -F "${CROSSENV}" -D "${RD}/trees/base" touch ${.TARGET} I use a one-line patch locally to bootstrap etcupdate into the worlds I package up at work via a similar one-liner. > Test ISOs for amd64 and i386 can be found here: > http://people.freebsd.org/~nwhitehorn/bsdinstall-amd64-20110222.iso.bz2 > http://people.freebsd.org/~nwhitehorn/bsdinstall-i386-20110224.iso.bz2 > > More recent test ISOs, as well as ones for other architectures, may be > available at: > http://wiki.freebsd.org/BSDInstall > > Bug reports would be very appreciated at this time. There are three > known bugs currently, which will be fixed soon, so please don't report > these: error reporting is not graceful if there are no writable disks in > the system, you must select at least one optional component, and the doc > build is not currently connected to the releases. > > There are some changes to the distribution format involved in this > patch, which are outlined below, and about which I would also appreciate > feedback: > - The src tree is not split up into pieces (e.g. ssbin) as with sysinstall I would at least like to have src split up into two pieces: 1) would be equivalent of sbase and ssys of old distributions, so you could choose to just install kernel sources along with the top-level Makefile bits to build kernels. I commonly install this subset on production machines so I can install a custom kernel in a pinch. 2) would be everything else in the source tree. > - Distfiles are not chunked, but are single xz-compressed archives > - There is only one CD image produced, which is always also a live CD > - There are no packages on this CD. There is about 100 MB of free space > on it right now, so it might make sense to keep it this way and to make > a separate packages CD/DVD. Removing packages from disc1 also makes > cross-building release ISOs possible. Packages were always optional on disc1 anyway, but moving them completely off is probably ok. -- John Baldwin