From owner-freebsd-current Mon Dec 13 19:31:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from nautilus.shore.net (nautilus.shore.net [207.244.124.104]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8148E15059 for ; Mon, 13 Dec 1999 19:31:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ejon@colltech.com) Received: from pm4-2-128.port.shore.net (colltech.com) [207.244.111.128] by nautilus.shore.net with esmtp (Exim) for current@freebsd.org id 11xigE-00056S-00; Mon, 13 Dec 1999 22:31:15 -0500 Message-ID: <3855BCBB.578EA6A1@colltech.com> Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 22:42:51 -0500 From: Eric Jones X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: current@freebsd.org Subject: sysinstall: is it really at the end of its lifecycle? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Folks, In looking through the sysinstall source, I noticed that the man page states that "This product is currently at the end of its life cycle and will eventually be replaced." Is there any truth to this? Apparently this verbiage was introduced in rev 1.20 because the previous text claimed that it would be replaced in 3.1-Release, "hopefully by setup(1)" (?????). Amusingly, the man page author (Jordan?) says, "This utility is a prototype which lasted approximately 3 years past its expiration date and is greatly in need of death." Which may or may not be true, but I've been reading current for quite a while and don't recall any discussion of a sysinstall replacement. I'm thinking of doing some work on automating installs and I'd hate to invest too much effort in a "prototype." Eric To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message