Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2009 18:15:12 +0100 (BST) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> To: Marc Fonvieille <blackend@freebsd.org> Cc: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sysinstall - installing the docproj distribution Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0908021814290.1454@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <20090802144944.GA50971@abigail.blackend.org> References: <20090802131209.32afe8a8@gluon.draftnet> <20090802144944.GA50971@abigail.blackend.org>
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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
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