Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 12:42:59 -0500 From: "Ben Kaduk" <minimarmot@gmail.com> To: "Kris Kennaway" <kris@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Infinite loop in menus in sysinstall Message-ID: <47d0403c0711190942g8c53effp33178e748780a5bf@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <47406CEF.7080708@FreeBSD.org> References: <47d0403c0711171344u383c0cbbwcb6b00f81c84a08e@mail.gmail.com> <47406CEF.7080708@FreeBSD.org>
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On 11/18/07, Kris Kennaway <kris@freebsd.org> wrote: > Ben Kaduk wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I finally broke down and pulled out the 7.0-beta2 iso for my dell inspiron 8500, > > but when I was at the part of the installation procedure to install the ports > > collection, it comes up with the message: > > > > Unable to get packages/INDEX file from selected media. > > > > This may be because the packages collection is not available > > on the distribution media you've chose, most likely an FTP site > > without the packages collection mirrored. Please verify that > > your media, or your path to the media, is correct and try again. > > > > [OK] > > > > > > It is true that I am installing over ftp from ftp5.freebsd.org (which > > is only about > > five blocks away in the real world!), and it certainly seems to not have > > a 7-INDEX floating around, but that's not the main issue. > > > > When I select ``OK'', it seems to try again, and pops up the same message. > > It would be nice to have an option to back up in the menus and change > > something; at the moment, I broke to vt4 and installed the perl5.8 port > > so that I can build my own index file, but I don't know if this will break me > > out of my menu loop. > > > > No time to investigate and patch at the moment, as I'm trying to > > get the ppc beta iso to boot on the machine I'm typing this on, > > as I said I would test a couple things (I said this several months > > ago, and only rebooted once since then). > > > > Anyone else see this behavior? > > It is expected that betas are not able to find the package sets because > they are not present in the packages-7.0-release/ directory yet. Maybe > sysinstall should be changed to look in packages-7-stable/ until the > packages are ready late in the release cycle. Of course -- we don't build packages for beta releases :) > > Also giving a way to back out of the loop would be nice, as you say :) > Actually, it seems that the loop is not quite infinite -- after clicking OK a sufficient number of times, I got back to a menu that could actually do things. These errors appeared when I was attempting to install the ports collection; I believe that some X-related ports did not get created (? hard to find a good term) through sysinstall, but a quick csup insured that I had the entire ports collection available. Now, of course, I have to actually build all the ports I use, which will be a while -- Xorg was ~6 hours on my 4 year old P4. Still, a cancel option would be nice. Is it worth filing a PR? -Ben Kaduk
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