From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 28 02:32:54 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 EE90D1065678; Wed, 28 Dec 2011 02:32:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lstewart@freebsd.org) Received: from lauren.room52.net (lauren.room52.net [210.50.193.198]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADEF78FC29; Wed, 28 Dec 2011 02:32:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lstewart1.loshell.room52.net (ppp59-167-184-191.static.internode.on.net [59.167.184.191]) by lauren.room52.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 0D0107E820; Wed, 28 Dec 2011 13:32:53 +1100 (EST) Message-ID: <4EFA7FD4.10600@freebsd.org> Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2011 13:32:52 +1100 From: Lawrence Stewart User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20111016 Thunderbird/7.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug Barton References: <4EF904F2.4020109@FreeBSD.org> <4EF953ED.9060905@fuzzwad.org> <4EF9B09A.4070103@freebsd.org> <4EFA1C9C.60601@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <4EFA1C9C.60601@FreeBSD.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=UNPARSEABLE_RELAY autolearn=unavailable version=3.3.2 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on lauren.room52.net Cc: freebsd-current , Ron McDowell 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: Wed, 28 Dec 2011 02:32:55 -0000 On 12/28/11 06:29, Doug Barton wrote: > On 12/27/2011 03:48, Lawrence Stewart wrote: >> On the topic of Doug's actual question, I see minimal sense in >> resurrecting sysinstall in head now. I would suggest it be done much >> closer to (say, 6 months before) the 10.0 release cycle, if no suitable >> post-installation configuration tool has materialised. > > My concern about that approach is that 9.0 hasn't even been released yet > and we've already seen changes that are going to make it hard to > resurrect sysinstall if that's the decision we come to. Waiting another > year or 2 would make it impossible. Which changes are you referring to? I would have thought a reverse merge to undo the deletion of the sysinstall and old libdialog sources would be very minimal work. We'd also probably need a few extra build system changes to make sure old libdialog is perhaps statically compiled into sysinstall as it would be the only in-tree consumer, but that's not hard either. I may be lacking some imagination, but don't really see why it would become harder the longer we wait. Cheers, Lawrence