From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 18 16:25:39 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 844C416A404 for ; Fri, 18 May 2007 16:25:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pj@smo.de) Received: from ilk.de (mx-out12.ilk.de [194.121.104.12]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0544713C448 for ; Fri, 18 May 2007 16:25:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pj@smo.de) Received: from bologna.intern.smo.de (pool45.ka.ilk.net [212.86.194.45]) by ilk.de (8.13.4/8.13.4/ilk-relay) with ESMTP id l4IGPXdm014267; Fri, 18 May 2007 18:25:34 +0200 Received: from [192.168.153.208] (herdubreid.intern.smo.de [192.168.153.208]) by bologna.intern.smo.de (8.13.4+Sun/8.13.4) with ESMTP id l4IGNDZI025675; Fri, 18 May 2007 18:23:13 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <464DD3BD.2020809@smo.de> Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 18:26:37 +0200 From: Philipp Ost User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.13) Gecko/20070323 X-Accept-Language: de, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Walthall References: <3aaaa3a0705170830g46487cc7occc8a51b82a9118b@mail.gmail.com> <1179420667.87418.22.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk> <20070517181006.GB69514@icarus.home.lan> <20070518150912.GA19343@SDF.LONESTAR.ORG> In-Reply-To: <20070518150912.GA19343@SDF.LONESTAR.ORG> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fast rate of major FreeBSD releases to STABLE X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 16:25:39 -0000 John Walthall wrote: > And let's not forget the infamous geometry bug! For me, at least sysinstall > has always, 100% of the time, incorrectly detected my disc geometry. Same here. I ignored it every time and got no problems at all... > Sysinstall is adequate, nothing more, nothing less. I don't mean though, to > belittle the efforts of the developers; these days people are going to > expect it to be polished on the order of YaST, which is ridiculous. Sysinstall > is functional. Full ACK. > Although irritated, variously, by every one of these issues, I am most concerned > about the geometry bug, it looks lackadaisical. The only other concern I have is the I-don't-know-which-field-is-in-focus-bug. But I have to admit that I rarely use sysinstall, so I don't bother that much... > If people have trouble with sysinstall-the-configuration-tool, perhaps they > might examine sysutils/webmin? That my be true for post-installation situations, but it doesn't help those people who want to *install* FreeBSD on their machines... Just my 2 cent Philipp -- www.familie-ost.info/~pj