From owner-svn-src-head@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 4 19:00:27 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-src-head@freebsd.org Received: from mx2.freebsd.org (mx2.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90A2F106567B; Tue, 4 Oct 2011 19:00:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from 172-17-198-245.globalsuite.net (hub.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::36]) by mx2.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D123517A864; Tue, 4 Oct 2011 19:00:00 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4E8B57B0.2090604@FreeBSD.org> Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2011 12:00:00 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://SupersetSolutions.com/ User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20111001 Thunderbird/7.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Craig Rodrigues References: <201110031513.p93FD9ev015593@svn.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: undefined OpenPGP: id=1A1ABC84 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Garrett Cooper , svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, Nathan Whitehorn Subject: Re: svn commit: r225937 - in head: . release release/amd64 release/i386 release/ia64 release/pc98 release/powerpc release/scripts release/sparc64 usr.sbin usr.sbin/sysinstall X-BeenThere: svn-src-head@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: SVN commit messages for the src tree for head/-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2011 19:00:27 -0000 On 10/03/2011 16:32, Craig Rodrigues wrote: > Hi, > > If pc-sysinstall can be a drop-in replacement for sysinstall in > "SCRIPT SYNTAX" mode, even better. sysinstall needs to go... > while people do use it, it has a lot of problems that aren't getting fixed, > and it is clear that bsdinstall is the future for FreeBSD installation. My initial point was not about installation, it was about post-installation configuration. We don't have a new tool for that yet. > Nathan is doing a good thing by forcing the issue by removing > it....there is too much brokenness in sysinstall that is not getting > fixed, and the sooner we can move to > bsdinstall/pc-sysinstall, the better. > > Since the sysinstall removal is happening only in HEAD/10.0, we have > some time to fix the issues before 10.0 is released. Sorry, that's backwards. Garrett was right. I'll have no objection to sysinstall being gone in 10.0-RELEASE after it's lived with the deprecated tag in 9.x, but the new functionality needs to be feature complete first. And for the record, yes I am aware that this problem is why sysinstall has lived so long in the first place. I should also point out for the record that I don't see anything malicious in Nathan's actions, my only concern is that they are premature. Doug -- Nothin' ever doesn't change, but nothin' changes much. -- OK Go Breadth of IT experience, and depth of knowledge in the DNS. Yours for the right price. :) http://SupersetSolutions.com/