From owner-freebsd-current Fri May 11 8: 3:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from nagual.pp.ru (pobrecita.freebsd.ru [194.87.13.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D44037B423; Fri, 11 May 2001 08:03:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ache@nagual.pp.ru) Received: (from ache@localhost) by nagual.pp.ru (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f4BF2km49149; Fri, 11 May 2001 19:02:47 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from ache) Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 19:02:43 +0400 From: "Andrey A. Chernov" To: Jordan Hubbard Cc: i18n@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sysinstall and wrong /etc/ttys types Message-ID: <20010511190242.A49045@nagual.pp.ru> References: <20010511120653.B43979@nagual.pp.ru> <20010511014459C.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> <20010511125355.A45053@nagual.pp.ru> <20010511074236D.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010511074236D.jkh@osd.bsdi.com>; from jkh@osd.bsdi.com on Fri, May 11, 2001 at 07:42:36AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 07:42:36 -0700, Jordan Hubbard wrote: > E.g. we went and translated a bunch of the *.TXT files into various > languages (among them Russian) and then gave sysinstall the ability to > change the screen map, terminal type and keyboard mapping according to > a global language setting. That survived for exactly one release > after we realized that we didn't have the infrastructure necessary to > translate those documents on an ongoing basis. It was sort of an > experiment anyway, so nobody really cried when we took it back out. Umm, I mean not this complex thing at all, I mean just tuning /etc/ttys file the same way as sysinstall currently tunes /etc/rc.conf file, i.e. just change variables there without loading font/screenmap/etc inside sysinstall itself. -- Andrey A. Chernov http://ache.pp.ru/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message