Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:01:02 +0100 From: Gavin Atkinson <gavin@FreeBSD.org> To: Rob Lytle <jan6146@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Sysinstall is still inadequate after all of these years Message-ID: <1215082862.32135.4.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <784966050807021123l267aa20en39eb513c12c90ad2@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 11:23 -0700, Rob Lytle wrote: > Hi All, > > My depressing analysis- YMMV. I've used FreeBSD since 1998. > > 1..Installing the packages off of the menu on the 3 CDROMs is an incredibly > tedious miserable process. I had to switch out the CD's around 40 times. > If you don't believe me, just mark a whole bunch of random packages after > obtaining the 7.0 release CD's, ad then install. Its frustrating and almost > like Windows, except its a bit faster as replacing CD's is faster than > reboots. There's been a few reports of this (see e.g. PR misc/123632), but I've tried recreating it myself without much success. Do you happen to know roughly which packages you installed? I'd really like to fix it, but I need to be able to recreate it first... > 2. When installing any given package, if a dependency is already there , > the package aborts and then goes though some loop where you have to press > OK half a dozen times. Thats insane. I've not seen this either, but I'll see if I can recreate it in a couple of days. Do you happen to know if there is a PR about this issue? If not, is there any chance you could submit one with more details of the error messages? Thanks, Gaivnhome | help
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