Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2012 15:50:23 -0800 From: Garrett Cooper <yanegomi@gmail.com> To: Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com> Subject: Re: sysinstall as a post-install tool Message-ID: <CAGH67wSQY%2BBBzm22WstwVhCnmfENnE7vwfUiDYTKUzGUQQ10dQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAF6rxgnVAbRd-mrN%2BykDmXafPzQRJgaw9q=%2Bi%2BXqTzL26gWh5Q@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAF6rxgnVAbRd-mrN%2BykDmXafPzQRJgaw9q=%2Bi%2BXqTzL26gWh5Q@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 3:33 PM, Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In the the recent sysinstall thread there seems to be general agreement t=
hat
> having a post-install configuration tool is a good thing. Until such a
> tool is written I think it would be a good idea to use sysinstall for
> this purpose. =A0I am willing to do the work to restore sysinstall and
> maintain it as a post-install tool until a new one is written.
>
> My plan would be to:
>
> - Restore sysinstall and libodialog
> - Statically link libodialog and make it specific to sysinstall
> =A0 =A0 =A0 A rewrite of sysinstall to use libdialog is not worth it. It =
would
> =A0 =A0 =A0 be better to just write a new configuration tool at that poin=
t.
> - Remove front end non-configure facing features (ie "upgrade" and
> installation options)
> - Remove scripting support from sysinstall
>
> Additionally I would agree to
> - Ensure that sysinstall continues to function as time goes on
> - Review and test patches to sysinstall
>
> What I am not agreeing to:
> - Rewrite sysinstall
> - Make a new tool
>
> Please follow up to freebsd-sysinstall@
Reviving sysinstall solely for this purpose is probably a big step
backwards (especially because it's after 9.0-RELEASE): sysinstall
needs to be permanently retired and bsdinstall needs work becoming a
more complete tool (FWIW, iXsystems has tentatively offered to pick up
the maintainership of the installer so that it's properly integrated
into pc-sysinstall as we originally intended to do).
So we shouldn't be wasting effort on sysinstall. Please talk to
Devin Teske about his 'host-setup' tool first.
Thanks,
-Garrett
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