Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2011 11:45:33 -0500 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org, FreeBSD Arch <freebsd-arch@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Request for review/testing: switching the default installer Message-ID: <201103021145.33376.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <4D6E641A.4060109@freebsd.org> References: <4D6BB5E3.6020408@freebsd.org> <201102281020.12599.jhb@freebsd.org> <4D6E641A.4060109@freebsd.org>
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On Wednesday, March 02, 2011 10:36:58 am Nathan Whitehorn wrote: > On 02/28/11 09:20, John Baldwin wrote: > > On Monday, February 28, 2011 9:49:07 am Nathan Whitehorn wrote: > >> BSDinstall has acquired at this point its final form (prior to a future > >> merge with pc-sysinstall), and I believe is ready to replace sysinstall > >> on the 9.0 snapshot ISOs. Barring any objections, I would like to pull > >> this switch 2 weeks from today, on the 14th of March. > >> > >> A patch to the release infrastructure code can be found here (make > >> release must be run with Makefile.bsdinstall using this patch to get > >> non-sysinstall media): > >> http://people.freebsd.org/~nwhitehorn/bsdinstall-release.diff > > Hmm, does your installed world include the pre-built mergemaster database? > > That should really be preserved. > > > > It happens here in the old release Makefile: > > > > # Install the system into the various distributions. > > release.2: > > cd ${.CURDIR}/..&& ${CROSSMAKE} distrib-dirs DESTDIR=${RD}/trees/base > > cd ${.CURDIR}/..&& ${CROSSMAKE} ${WORLD_FLAGS} distributeworld \ > > DISTDIR=${RD}/trees > > sh ${.CURDIR}/scripts/mm-mtree.sh -F "${CROSSENV}" -D > > "${RD}/trees/base" > > touch ${.TARGET} > > > > I use a one-line patch locally to bootstrap etcupdate into the worlds I > > package up at work via a similar one-liner. > > And this is why sending out patches for review is a good idea. I've > updated my code to call into this script, though it would be nice if, > say, make distribution handled this. Thanks for pointing it out. > > >> Test ISOs for amd64 and i386 can be found here: > >> http://people.freebsd.org/~nwhitehorn/bsdinstall-amd64-20110222.iso.bz2 > >> http://people.freebsd.org/~nwhitehorn/bsdinstall-i386-20110224.iso.bz2 > >> > >> More recent test ISOs, as well as ones for other architectures, may be > >> available at: > >> http://wiki.freebsd.org/BSDInstall > >> > >> Bug reports would be very appreciated at this time. There are three > >> known bugs currently, which will be fixed soon, so please don't report > >> these: error reporting is not graceful if there are no writable disks in > >> the system, you must select at least one optional component, and the doc > >> build is not currently connected to the releases. > >> > >> There are some changes to the distribution format involved in this > >> patch, which are outlined below, and about which I would also appreciate > >> feedback: > >> - The src tree is not split up into pieces (e.g. ssbin) as with sysinstall > > I would at least like to have src split up into two pieces: > > > > 1) would be equivalent of sbase and ssys of old distributions, so you could > > choose to just install kernel sources along with the top-level Makefile bits > > to build kernels. I commonly install this subset on production machines so I > > can install a custom kernel in a pinch. > > > > 2) would be everything else in the source tree. > > This is a little bit tricky, since it involves inter-distribution > dependencies which don't currently exist (e.g. you need sbase for ssys > to be useful, and for severythingelse to be useful). I suppose that the > top-level Makefile bits are small and could end up in both archives, > where one can overwrite the other with the same thing. Would that solve > your problem? Hmm, my thinking is ssys would include sbase, and severythingelse would require ssys. That is already true since libc needs syscall.mk from the kernel sources anyway. From a user perspective you end up with three choices: no sources, kernel sources, or all sources. -- John Baldwin
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