Date: Sat, 8 Apr 1995 22:50:01 -0700 From: uhclem%nemesis@fw.ast.com To: freebsd-bugs Subject: bin/308: Do-it-yourself FTP needs to prompt for what to download FDIV001 Message-ID: <199504090550.WAA03910@freefall.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of Sun, 9 Apr 95 00:43 CDT <m0rxpmp-0004voC@nemesis.lonestar.org>
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>Number: 308 >Category: bin >Synopsis: Do-it-yourself FTP needs to prompt for what to download FDIV001 >Confidential: no >Severity: serious >Priority: medium >Responsible: freebsd-bugs (FreeBSD bugs mailing list) >State: open >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Sat Apr 8 22:50:01 1995 >Originator: Frank Durda IV >Organization: >Release: FreeBSD 2.0.0-SNAP950322 i386 >Environment: Occurs in SNAP-021095 Still occurs in SNAP-032295 >Description: [FDIV001] During the installation, if you specify that you want to do your own FTP commands and have selected more than one distribution (bin, src, etc), FTP is invoked repeatedly to download each module separately (normal), but nothing is displayed to indicate which module the install expects you to download now. You are simply dropped-into FTP without instruction. I determined (the hard way) that it doesn't want all the distributions downloaded at once. I found out only when it came back from processing just bin and started FTP again, apparently wanting more files. But which? Even if I pretended that the distributions were there already, it would fail due to filename conflicts (see below). The bin distribution also had trouble because the CKSUMS file from later distributions replaced the the CKSUMS file for the bin distribution. It is possible for the user to guess what he/she is supposed to download using FTP, but if they download the wrong thing in the wrong order (I did this several times), the installation sometimes does not catch the error and the installation goes on its merry way with unknown results. Once I determined it was asking for stuff in the order that the checked boxes were listed, I wrote that order down and on the next install attempt I was able to supply things in the expected order. >How-To-Repeat: Run install with the download-it-yourself via FTP option and ask for multiple distributions. To see the second half of the problem after the bin is extracted, reply No to the question about deleting /usr/tmp. WARNING, Answering Yes to that question makes subsequent downloads impossible! (Another bug will be filed on this point.) >Fix: This is a Suggestion: Before invoking FTP each time in this manual mode, display a prompt such as "Now download all files in the 'src' distribution" so the user will know exactly what to get. When wanting compat1x (as an example), the prompt would say: "Now download all files in the 'compat1x' distribution" etc. Longer term, I also suggest putting a prefix of some sort on files with common names, such as CKSUMS (src.CKSUMS) so that if the user elects to keep the files around (the installation does offer that choice), the conflicting names won't render the already-downloaded files useless. Right now, the CKSUMS for bin (and other files) are lost after downloading the next distribution, and you never have the opportunity to make separate directories to put the different distributions in. Another alternative would be to do the downloads into subdirectories below /usr/tmp (or the directory that the user specifies) so that the filenames won't conflict (and be overwritten) and they can still be deleted if the user wants to. The subdirectories could have the names of the distributions, such as %s/src, %s/bin, %s/compat1x, etc. *END* >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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