Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2010 12:19:24 +0200 From: "Svein Skogen (Listmail Account)" <svein-listmail@stillbilde.net> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [RFC] Rewriting sade(8) Message-ID: <4BBDADAC.7080803@stillbilde.net> In-Reply-To: <867hoi8gbl.fsf@ds4.des.no> References: <55861270658151@web135.yandex.ru> <l2we277d6c81004071049h21670783ic4a9f419aedca272@mail.gmail.com> <4BBD68DB.7050600@yandex.ru> <201004080727.21020.bruce@cran.org.uk> <4BBD7CDC.2070505@yandex.ru> <20100408103809.13496s9i6ny03ocg@webmail.leidinger.net> <867hoi8gbl.fsf@ds4.des.no>
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On 08.04.2010 11:05, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> writes:
>> Please consider using SVN instead. A lot more users will be able to
>> check out from there.
>
> We don't grant non-committers access to the Subversion repo.
>
>> It looks like other people had a look at sysinstall, not at sade. As
>> sysinstall is supposed to be used at installation time, and the intent
>> for sade was to offer the functionality (or more) of the part of
>> sysinstall which is useful after installation (and to prevent admins
>> from using sysinstall after the installation to prevent some unwanted
>> foot-shooting), I do not think that we need to think about a strong
>> lock between sysinstall and sade.
>
> Yes we do. Otherwise we'll just end up back where we are today, where
> if you want anything more complicated than a single-disk install you
> have to drop into the fixit shell and do it manually before running the
> installation procedure. Anythig that sade can do, we want sysinstall to
> do as well, and we don't want to implement everything twice.
>
> My suggestion is to add a "sysinstall mode" to sade where it operates
> under certain (minor) constraints and reports what it did in a format
> that sysinstall can parse, so sysinstall can just fork-exec sade instead
> of duplicating the code.
Wouldn't a setup similar to fetch/libfetch do the trick here? Move most
of the actual "working payload" of sade into a library, and make sade
just a frontend for this? That way poking the sysinstall code to use
sade should be easier, and updates will automagically fix both things?
//Svein
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