From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 3 19:49:29 2011 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 232FF1065686 for ; Wed, 3 Aug 2011 19:49:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nwhitehorn@freebsd.org) Received: from mail.icecube.wisc.edu (trout.icecube.wisc.edu [128.104.255.119]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6CB48FC08 for ; Wed, 3 Aug 2011 19:49:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mail.icecube.wisc.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F37F5811B; Wed, 3 Aug 2011 14:49:28 -0500 (CDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at icecube.wisc.edu Received: from mail.icecube.wisc.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (trout.icecube.wisc.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10030) with ESMTP id unCi+hfjp1U7; Wed, 3 Aug 2011 14:49:27 -0500 (CDT) Received: from wanderer.tachypleus.net (i3-dhcp-172-16-223-128.icecube.wisc.edu [172.16.223.128]) by mail.icecube.wisc.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id D752358118; Wed, 3 Aug 2011 14:49:27 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <4E39A647.20606@freebsd.org> Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2011 14:49:27 -0500 From: Nathan Whitehorn User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.18) Gecko/20110624 Thunderbird/3.1.11 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Garrett Cooper References: <4E37C634.6090002@cran.org.uk> <4E37FD41.4070601@freebsd.org> <20110803182834.GC1973@emphyrio.blackend.org> <20110803190322.GD1973@emphyrio.blackend.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Bruce Cran , freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 9.0-BETA1 installer issues 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: Wed, 03 Aug 2011 19:49:29 -0000 On 08/03/11 14:42, Garrett Cooper wrote: > On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 12:03 PM, Marc Fonvieille 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//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