Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2010 11:34:56 +0200 From: Gabor Kovesdan <gabor@FreeBSD.org> To: Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org> Cc: svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, Randi Harper <randi@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r209787 - head/usr.sbin/sysinstall Message-ID: <4C359BC0.9000605@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <4C3591F5.2040401@freebsd.org> References: <201007080328.o683SP5k089410@svn.freebsd.org> <4C358891.5010502@FreeBSD.org> <4C3591F5.2040401@freebsd.org>
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Em 2010.07.08. 10:53, Colin Percival escreveu: > My personal feeling was that since the level of interest in sysinstall from > FreeBSD developers was generally low, this would be sufficient, so I told > randi to go ahead and commit without also adding noise to -arch; but if you > think the freebsd-sysinstall list is insufficient I'll get her to back this > out pending discussion on -arch. > Imo, it should go to current@. It's the only officially supported installer, which also implies that it's a default piece of software that you just cannot avoid while installing. > >> I just used this >> feature yesterday to repair my -CURRENT installation on a netbook with >> an USB snapshot image. First I tried freebsd-update but it just failed >> to fetch the keys from the servers and was unable to produce any sensual >> error message >> > Yes, freebsd-update should print a more useful error message when it is asked > to upgrade to a release it doesn't support (freebsd-update only does RELEASEs, > BETAs, and RCs). Another reason to keep this feature then. And what if your installation is broken in such a way that you cannot run freebsd-update? Yeah, there is the fixit console and the live system but what if I just want to overwrite my system with the binaries of the installation media without mocking with manual repair? There's no other way to do so, so this feature is still useful. If you want to make it clear that it's not recommended for updates, let's move it to the repair section as "Quick repair from installation media" or something like that. > But a more *sensual* message is probably not necessary. :-) > Sorry, bad English. :) Gabor
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