From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 4 03:39:06 2012 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 66808106566B for ; Wed, 4 Jan 2012 03:39:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from crodr001@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ey0-f182.google.com (mail-ey0-f182.google.com [209.85.215.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFA128FC12 for ; Wed, 4 Jan 2012 03:39:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: by eaaf13 with SMTP id f13so21717174eaa.13 for ; Tue, 03 Jan 2012 19:39:04 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=wb6dFNtV34OLxIQ28a74jLdkGANYhWl1ZZW+ZNmSjNE=; b=rrk3mxJr3l4gAoAN142Hu7sdUjSPAXHD+06XfPNhu5cBf44PTrv0wWlAdp0g01WaYA 3a7kv8mK3B/H7MDnDiWJMREO+ZBE8bD02p8e+kG5ho+6tilwANJ4UqGs884LA9PPTuKA eVImWqDbJEcEf1Y6+FWaBOIARKv5IQj2u9PHk= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.205.129.3 with SMTP id hg3mr12639726bkc.20.1325648344640; Tue, 03 Jan 2012 19:39:04 -0800 (PST) Sender: crodr001@gmail.com Received: by 10.205.115.138 with HTTP; Tue, 3 Jan 2012 19:39:04 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <4F03A366.5030601@cran.org.uk> References: <4F03A366.5030601@cran.org.uk> Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2012 19:39:04 -0800 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 5ho492aD8Y3UXHOq0wM_ndBiIkU Message-ID: From: Craig Rodrigues To: Bruce Cran Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: Eitan Adler , freebsd-current Current , freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org, Marcel Moolenaar Subject: Re: sysinstall as a post-install 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, 04 Jan 2012 03:39:06 -0000 On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 4:55 PM, Bruce Cran wrote: > There's a rewrite almost ready to go that supports ZFS etc. at > http://butcher.heavennet.ru/sade/ - I'm hoping to find some time to finish > it off and import it. > > -- > Bruce Cran > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" Bruce, Where is the code for this? Would committing your sade additions now to a project branch in Subversion be appropriate? That way folks could check it out from SVN, and provide comments and patches, and help push things along faster. When your code is complete, it could be merged to HEAD. While I understand some of the concerns about removing sysinstall in HEAD, I think that sysinstall is so far behind the curve in usefulness, that I think that putting a bullet in its head now and forcing a mini-crisis to implement something better is not a bad idea, even though it may violate POLA. Many thanks to Nathan for all his latest work on the installer. The state of sysinstall today is worse than some of the installers I used in various Linux distributions about 15 years ago, and makes FreeBSD look silly for new users trying to set it up. I think we can do better. -- Craig Rodrigues rodrigc@crodrigues.org