From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 12 22:35:07 2008 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 58939106566C for ; Sat, 12 Jul 2008 22:35:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from diizzyy@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.172]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DEFD98FC15 for ; Sat, 12 Jul 2008 22:35:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from diizzyy@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id q2so105670uge.37 for ; Sat, 12 Jul 2008 15:35:05 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=2eVKeRYavNqDSLmm2wqg/sfjCo6gGK6gT3WDqbikeuQ=; b=ia9vMT3kGidiI++qrF1l4dN/us7/Q2H5tIl7NXKNo8XFNdcWXSy4D7tTwQ92GtMaAY l6IaF4PKOWnWVlo5DpuQtl4es0z7raLseXQPMxCGfb4GNotiiiuBudTHEoTR9nwfnH0c 0MZAGO5eerkUAbjQRCOKW2JsfRSygardJAB40= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=nFvMtbc9r7Say+x1GISKYIZim0WcZrKf7pKtUNOBdZn3P14kv+7FDoDx8vR9HB/fBC VgJoxPUU4w8r5hWEC5QwMy4kTkin/9yPLlf+ZrkDMddVT/DgQt95w5VH5mwyTyxo5w1E ziESJYhoF85Msj+k741aQzZkrLJwHTX2pHtL4= Received: by 10.67.116.7 with SMTP id t7mr544343ugm.64.1215900572399; Sat, 12 Jul 2008 15:09:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?83.178.151.135? ( [83.178.151.135]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 31sm2442443ugg.36.2008.07.12.15.09.28 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sat, 12 Jul 2008 15:09:31 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <48792B97.9090201@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2008 00:09:27 +0200 From: Daniel Engberg User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (Windows/20080421) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sat, 12 Jul 2008 23:19:58 +0000 Subject: Re: Sysinstall is still inadequate after all of these years / sorry I started flame war 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: Sat, 12 Jul 2008 22:35:07 -0000 Hi, While the main issue/topic addresses sysinstall's inability to 'nicely' interact with installation of packages and then turns into generic installer issues/thoughts etc I would like to bring up to those who've missed that there is ongoing work with a new installer. Last year(?) Ivan Voras made some research of current "frameworks/installers" to evalute and to get some ideas of what you would want from an installer and this turned into a SoC project founded by Google. While I'm not really sure what it does/doesn't I think it looks like a good solution in general. This is still WIP so it might be worth looking in and contribute. http://wiki.freebsd.org/finstall/Amnesiac - Screens http://ivoras.sharanet.org/stuff/connectserver.png - Remote install (WIP?) A bit late but oh well ;-) //Daniel