From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 2 17:15:12 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD74C106566C; Sun, 2 Aug 2009 17:15:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rwatson@FreeBSD.org) Received: from cyrus.watson.org (cyrus.watson.org [65.122.17.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98B5D8FC13; Sun, 2 Aug 2009 17:15:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rwatson@FreeBSD.org) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [65.122.17.41]) by cyrus.watson.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4873146B32; Sun, 2 Aug 2009 13:15:12 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2009 18:15:12 +0100 (BST) From: Robert Watson X-X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org To: Marc Fonvieille In-Reply-To: <20090802144944.GA50971@abigail.blackend.org> Message-ID: References: <20090802131209.32afe8a8@gluon.draftnet> <20090802144944.GA50971@abigail.blackend.org> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: Bruce Cran , current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sysinstall - installing the docproj distribution X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 02 Aug 2009 17:15:13 -0000 On Sun, 2 Aug 2009, Marc Fonvieille wrote: > On Sun, Aug 02, 2009 at 01:12:09PM +0100, Bruce Cran wrote: >> I downloaded an 8-CURRENT powerpc snapshot from >> http://pub.allbsd.org/FreeBSD-snapshots/powerpc/8.0-HEAD-20090731-JPSNAP/cdrom/ >> yesterday and tried to install it. The installation of the English >> documentation set failed saying it couldn't find "packages/INDEX" on the >> CD. The doc directory does exist so it seems it should be possible to >> install it. Is this a bug in sysinstall? > > Your ISO comes without any packages? I mean you cannot install any packages > during installation time with sysinstall? If it's the case, it's normal you > got this error: docs are now provided via packages so if packages/INDEXis > not available it'll fail. > > You can install docs after installation time with: > > pkg_add -rv en-freebsd-doc To date, betas have been shipped without packages, but our installer tends to handle that less than gracefully (as I recall, it just pops up error dialogs). Possibly, sysinstall should pop up a message early on saying that there are no packages and then not offer the option to do anything with them. :-) Robert N M Watson Computer Laboratory University of Cambridge