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From: Mikael Karpberg <karpen@ocean.campus.luth.se>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc make.conf
In-Reply-To: <28439.875567518@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Sep 29, 97 02:11:58 pm"
To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 1997 13:13:24 +0200 (CEST)
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According to Jordan K. Hubbard:
> > >   Document the ever decreasingly popular USA_RESIDENT variable.
> > Could this be set by sysinstall?
> Eek, no.  There are too many variables there already - it needs to be
> settable, yes, but through a "ports configuration" submenu in the new
> setup(1) utility which is coming Real Soon Now, yup! ;-)

Speaking of which...

I hope the new utilities wont be as dump about it. When you install the
system you should be able to choose any site to get it from, and choose
any distribution, including DES, etc. When you then "commit", a check is
done to see if you have chosen DES, or such distributions, and the selected
site is not in the known free world (i.e. it's an unknown site ("other URL"),
or a US site). If that's the case, sysinstall will have to throw a requester
up and ask "Are you currently within US?" (or something), and if the answer
is "no", always try and fetch the "Dangerous parts" (DES, etc) from a list
of sites known to be "pure" (internat.freebsd.org, etc). The rest of the
dists selected should be fetched from the selected site. Possibly you have
to give the user a choise of using his "other site" for DES too, if he's
not on the net, or on a very slow line, but has a local server which has
a mirror or some ftp site.

The anwer on the requester should probably go into make.conf automatically
too, though. That shouldn't be hard to do.

  /Mikael