From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 27 16:55:52 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74F03106566C; Tue, 27 Dec 2011 16:55:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bruce@cran.org.uk) Received: from muon.cran.org.uk (muon.cran.org.uk [IPv6:2a01:348:0:15:5d59:5c40:0:1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06C4C8FC17; Tue, 27 Dec 2011 16:55:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from muon.cran.org.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by muon.cran.org.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECBEFE6227; Tue, 27 Dec 2011 16:55:50 +0000 (GMT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=cran.org.uk; h=subject :references:from:content-transfer-encoding:content-type :in-reply-to:message-id:date:cc:to:mime-version; s=mail; bh=jYJQ Ki4m4EQuhSpGx+il8KkGxbs=; b=AF1o2Zpp+QLejrF3B4H6DD9CUSpVu+0SYZpj 0xF+W2kJ8ii6IgemeSagPYXEOhuuiQayjFPv4VovxBhj/5oJ30WOYOrF2BN/ZWrP C6KKVASYkj+1AAmzbfISjV8UyxuqplsfbxFiW+O2N5k9Tdwzff0g4FtHXiL6YxF9 rvDmVuM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=cran.org.uk; h=subject :references:from:content-transfer-encoding:content-type :in-reply-to:message-id:date:cc:to:mime-version; q=dns; s=mail; b= QXC/0p2aX/1pkuIr0YGcCDUf5/kePaOf2JyL0NA78iJVRBtk2JX8qp3JYsfEERzx xt7jU524T0jyP7UjfM8go/RsAegMwrVkQSsawp+HNGJk8SMA7zCP5m7pPoGNt7a3 48eUCJuoB1ZSnzNtEZZp/3kQm8m1xMDb1Ae/8dL21qY= Received: from [192.168.1.73] (188-222-18-231.zone13.bethere.co.uk [188.222.18.231]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by muon.cran.org.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id CB5D7E621E; Tue, 27 Dec 2011 16:55:50 +0000 (GMT) References: <4EF904F2.4020109@FreeBSD.org> <4EF95235.7020502@FreeBSD.org> From: Bruce Cran Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <4EF95235.7020502@FreeBSD.org> Message-Id: Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2011 16:54:21 +0000 To: Doug Barton Mime-Version: 1.0 (1.0) X-Mailer: iPad Mail (9A405) Cc: freebsd-current Subject: Re: Removal of sysinstall from HEAD and lack of a post-install configuration tool 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: Tue, 27 Dec 2011 16:55:52 -0000 I think such a tool should /not/ be a port, since I expect it would include a= package browser in it. I think it's something that could really help new us= ers get used to FreeBSD without having to trawl through man pages right at t= he start. --=20 Bruce Cran Sent from my iPad On 27 Dec 2011, at 05:05, Doug Barton wrote: > On 12/26/2011 20:29, Xin LI wrote: >> On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 3:36 PM, Doug Barton wrote: >>> The story so far ... >>>=20 >>> sysinstall was removed from HEAD in October. I (and others) objected on >>> the basis that at this time there is no replacement for the post-install= >>> configuration role that sysinstall played. More sysinstall components >>> were then removed. Then the old version of libdialog (which sysinstall >>> used) was removed. Thus at this point it's not possible to easily >>> restore sysinstall. >>>=20 >>> So my question is, how much do you care? Is lack of that functionality >>> in HEAD something that we care about? >>=20 >> Perhaps make it a port instead? I personally don't use sysinstall for >> post-install tasks at all, but it won't hurt to have such >> functionality. >=20 > You're not the first person to suggest that, but I don't see how it's > actually responsive to the problem. This issue only affects HEAD, so a > port would not be generally useful. It would also be an enormous amount > of work to make it into a port. It would be much easier to revert the > necessary changes to bring back the old libdialog and sysinstall itself. >=20 >=20 > Doug >=20 > --=20 >=20 > [^L] >=20 > Breadth of IT experience, and depth of knowledge in the DNS. > Yours for the right price. :) http://SupersetSolutions.com/ >=20 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"=