From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 25 18:26:38 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A04A2B94 for ; Sat, 25 May 2013 18:26:38 +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 6671FE69 for ; Sat, 25 May 2013 18:26:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from muon.cran.org.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by muon.cran.org.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D843E6A2E for ; Sat, 25 May 2013 19:26:37 +0100 (BST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=cran.org.uk; h=message-id :date:from:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; s=mail; bh=/7jjFJCfQEEx MpjWuzQ+l7/IR20=; b=Y1AfIND1pRjhuAaCP8M/9ZLgdfpPuE998P9IlxEx2Bx0 qLKJPtqYH+sL7QOo24BBemewAZYnEFyYw+h4Cj1yDcjvFowlqkZ7C/qoYoIJZV+I T2q0RcFI5CnkdGXLNqP+1KRRNbcD5jKnN1D8uuIrYKao/5Fu5pOkdoHC9mtDHEc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=cran.org.uk; h=message-id :date:from:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=mail; b=ki0wMi ymu5bBEsLEkZ6jaewnsvA/B4oHztfynRSpy/DKGdEC9DWELarYulIsvca+Rs/TiS BcrdcXAsF2t5wtnsrC4HawHN5U8r9cCQ2jWV7bfKwXy1gDYbaP8LNMvbx7mGwS/O ztpwXFIvybufg/Ytvq2fW5UoZ3E9kuUQjqJk4= Received: from [192.168.2.61] (unknown [93.89.81.205]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by muon.cran.org.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 52CB9E6A2D for ; Sat, 25 May 2013 19:26:37 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <51A1025A.2020607@cran.org.uk> Date: Sat, 25 May 2013 19:26:34 +0100 From: Bruce Cran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130509 Thunderbird/17.0.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD installers and future direction References: <51A0DC3F.9030301@cran.org.uk> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 25 May 2013 18:26:38 -0000 On 25/05/2013 17:15, Matt Olander wrote: > From my vague recollection, we discussed improving bsdinstall by tying > it in with pc-sysinstall, which we've been threatening to do for at > least a year. Also, there was much discussion about Devin's bsdconfig > perhaps tying in with a Google SoC Project. > > I think Devin was nominated for most of the work, since he was unable > to defend himself :P Thanks. From previous discussions with Devin I think he has other plans for the installer that don't involve pc-sysinstall. But since it seems the future is all sh(1) code, I won't be able to contribute. https://wiki.freebsd.org/PCBSDInstallMerge lists a few limitations with pc-sysinstall - are these being fixed? -- Bruce