Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2011 14:49:27 -0500 From: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> To: Garrett Cooper <yanegomi@gmail.com> Cc: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 9.0-BETA1 installer issues Message-ID: <4E39A647.20606@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <CAGH67wSU_9TcPHmYWoeF1dicvFA5-zuWjAyssFP0jg-Ph3_WDg@mail.gmail.com> References: <4E37C634.6090002@cran.org.uk> <4E37FD41.4070601@freebsd.org> <20110803182834.GC1973@emphyrio.blackend.org> <20110803190322.GD1973@emphyrio.blackend.org> <CAGH67wSU_9TcPHmYWoeF1dicvFA5-zuWjAyssFP0jg-Ph3_WDg@mail.gmail.com>
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On 08/03/11 14:42, Garrett Cooper wrote: > On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 12:03 PM, Marc Fonvieille<blackend@freebsd.org> wrote: >> On Wed, Aug 03, 2011 at 08:28:34PM +0200, Marc Fonvieille wrote: >>> On Tue, Aug 02, 2011 at 08:36:01AM -0500, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: >>>> On 08/02/11 04:41, Bruce Cran wrote: >>>>> I've been trying out 9.0-BETA1: it's a lot easier to install than >>>>> previous releases with bsdinstall, but I spotted a few issues: >>>> >>>> Good! Thanks for checking. >>>> >>>>> Typo - "Resovler Configuration". >>>>> If I leave the resolver window for a while it gets corrupted with: >>>>> >>>>> Aug 2 10:31:23 dhclient[973]: Bogus domain search list 15: lan, ..... >>>> >>>> Interesting. It looks like DHCP doesn't like your local setup... >>>> >>>>> In the documentation installation screen, it should say "At a >>>>> minimum..." - the 'a' is missing. Also, there should perhaps be a >>>>> semi-colon between "English version" and "this is the original". The >>>>> menu also doesn't appear to do anything once you select "OK". >>>> >>>> The spelling fixes are easy to fix. The documentation issue is more >>>> confusing. It should begin running pkg_add, after you press OK, assuming >>>> you selected something. Do you have the installer log handy? It will be >>>> in /tmp. >>>> >>> [...] >>> >>> Hmm I think it's "default" PACKAGESITE env variable pointing on >>> non-existing >>> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/<arch>/packages-9-beta1/Latest/ >>> >> >> I'm wrong, I did an install and same behavior as Bruce. >> I looked in /tmp/bsdinstall_log: >> >> Running installation step: docsintall >> pkg_add: unable to fetch 'ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/packages-9-current/Latest/en-freebsd-doc.tbz' by URL >> >> Any idea? > > Because PACKAGESITE isn't specified properly for starters; also > the extension for the file is wrong (it should be txz, right?). So it > sounds like the pkg_add remote fetching logic in bsdinstall isn't > correct today. > Thanks, > -Garrett It's a regular package, with a .tbz extension. The code is mostly hooked up properly (with the possible exception of a resolv.conf issue I just thought of), but could probably use better error handling. -Nathan
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