Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2003 18:24:56 +0300 From: "Artem 'Zazoobr' Ignatiev" <timon@memphis.mephi.ru> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: 5.2-RC1 impresiions Message-ID: <20031220152456.GA26730@memphis.mephi.ru>
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Hi,... My old hdd just went down, so I had to reinstall freebsd completely from the scratch second time for a three years on my home box, via ftp. Impression one: dynamic root. I've got a habbit of doing 'cd /etc; for i in syslog.conf rc.conf ttys; do ed $i; done' in fixit console during the install process once /bin had been settled down. Whoops - with dynamic root one must wait for /lib to come up Impression two: pkg_add. It is in base system. Trying to bring system to multiuser run-level ASAP, i've choosed to install only bin and catman distros. Trying to do 'pkg_add -r bash' resulted in ld-elf trapping without libssl.so.3 (ha, ldd tells me that it requires also libcrypto). So I must say, installing only bin distributions leads to inconsistent system. pkg_add(1) either must be compiled without cryptostuff (if possible), or there must be some other solution. Impression three (Implied from impression two): 'Do you want to visit main menu...'? Of course, I do. I need sshd and ssh, and working pkg_add. So I go to distributions, select the crypto distribution, go to top level - and sysinstall runs from the very beginning. Hey, I've downloaded bin distribution, and catman, and I don't want to download them once more (and pay for them twice, in particular). Just thinking, whether it worth filling a PR...
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