Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 19:09:44 +0100 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> To: Ben Kaduk <minimarmot@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Infinite loop in menus in sysinstall Message-ID: <4741D168.4060408@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <47d0403c0711190942g8c53effp33178e748780a5bf@mail.gmail.com> References: <47d0403c0711171344u383c0cbbwcb6b00f81c84a08e@mail.gmail.com> <47406CEF.7080708@FreeBSD.org> <47d0403c0711190942g8c53effp33178e748780a5bf@mail.gmail.com>
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Ben Kaduk wrote: > 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 :) Yes we do, they just go in the usual packages-7-current/ directory. >> 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. pkg_add -r, portinstall -P etc are expected to continue to work as normal. > Still, a cancel option would be nice. Is it worth filing a PR? Probably. Kris
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