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Date:      Thu, 21 Jun 2012 12:33:11 -0700
From:      Devin Teske <devin.teske@fisglobal.com>
To:        <FreeBSD-sysinstall@freebsd.org>
Cc:        "Robison, Dave" <Dave.Robison@fisglobal.com>
Subject:   Re: [CFT] bsdconfig-0.7.0 in ports (sysutils/bsdconfig)
Message-ID:  <8942FFE3-3709-47C5-A473-DEF82F6A70B5@fisglobal.com>
In-Reply-To: <136301cd4f18$9fcb6990$df623cb0$@fisglobal.com>
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New minor revision 0.7.1 committed to ports.

Bugfix:
- Certain services in "Toggle Startup Services" (under the "Startup" menu) =
could not be toggled off.

If you have already installed 0.7.0, portupgrade should make short work of =
updating to the latest version.
--=20
Devin

P.S. Sorry for top-post.
P.P.S. Thanks goes to Vitaly Magerya for the bug report.

On Jun 20, 2012, at 12:12 PM, Devin Teske wrote:

> Hi fellow sysinstall(8)ers,
>=20
> The time has long come to embrace a replacement for sysisntall(8).
>=20
> In FreeBSD-9 we saw the introduction of bsdinstall(8) on the release media
> (a good and great step).
>=20
> Currently in RELENG_9, bsdinstall(8) and sysinstall(8) live side-by-side
> but in RELENG_10, sysinstall(8) is relegated to the Attic (read: not
> available).
>=20
> Envisioning a world without sysinstall(8) has highlighted the fact that
> bsdinstall(8) does not implement the "Configure" menu from sysinstall.
> This is viewed as a value-drain in functionality w/respect to
> post-installation configuration routines.
>=20
> Enter bsdconfig(8).
>=20
> bsdconfig(8) aims to meet-or-exceed all functionality provided by
> sysinstall(8)'s "Configure" menu (for the express purpose of allowing
> sysinstall(8) to safely _and quietly_ disappear from FreeBSD starting with
> RELENG_10).
>=20
> Additional introduction from the pkg-descr:
> =3D=3D=3D
> bsdconfig is a robust utility for configuring/managing various aspects of
> the
> FreeBSD Operating System. Feature-highlights include (but are not limited
> to):
>  - Modular, stable, efficient and i18n-compatible.
>  - Easily maintained/extendable sh(1) source/syntax.
>  - Works with both dialog(1) in base and Xdialog(1) from ports
> (x11/xdialog).
>  - rc.conf(5) configuration/management based on sysutils/sysrc
>  - Timezone configuration based on sysutils/tzdialog
>  - Networking management based on sysutils/host-setup
>=20
> WWW: http://druidbsd.sourceforge.net/
> =3D=3D=3D
>=20
> In this Call For Testing (CFT), I would like anybody/everybody that is
> familiar with sysinstall to do a comparative test with the thought-in-mind
> that we are working toward the immediate goal of getting a stable revision
> into HEAD so we can MFC before the 9.1-R freeze date (scheduled July 2nd).
>=20
> With that, I say no more -- pointing you to the newly-added port...
>=20
> sysutils/bsdconfig
> --=20
> Devin

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