Date: Sun, 15 Feb 1998 07:46:39 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan Sm rgrav) Cc: freebsd-install@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Questions to the gurus :) Message-ID: <9132.887557599@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "15 Feb 1998 16:35:33 %2B0100." <xzpu3a0zxru.fsf@hrotti.ifi.uio.no>
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> I was thinking of putting distribution descriptions etc. into the .inf
> files and having sysinstall scan for them at runtime rather than
> hardcoding the distribution list into sysinstall. Something like this:
Yeah, one could do that.
> packages =[
> bin/bin.inf
> catpages/catpages.inf
> ...
Don't forget that XFree86 tarballs would have to have .inf files made
up for them in order to work as well.
> Perhaps we can assign identifiers to each distribution:
>
> packages ={
> p_bin
> p_catpages
> ...
> p_subin
> p_susbin
> }
>
> and then:
>
> p_bin = bin/bin.inf
> p_catpages = catpages/catpages.inf
Gosh, these are almost starting to sound like... variables! Could
the .inf file simply be on its way to becoming a .tcl file, thus
saving anyone from having to write extra parsing code? Agh! Paradigm
Shift! Brace for impact! :-)
> I noticed that the current sysinstall code spends quite some time
> making sure it is (or isn't) running on a VTY. This is something I'm
> going to have to read closely (or just rip out).
Just as long as it still runs on a vt100... :-)
> libdialog has some bugs in which menus get screwed up under certain
> circumstances (or perhaps there is a bug in the way sysinstall uses
> them). I'll have to take some time to RTFM for libdialog...
In which release? Are you sure you're running the latest along either
the 2.2 or 3.0 branches? There was a display bug at one point
which caused nested menus to be garbled, but I finally found and
stomped that one before 2.2.5 went out.
Jordan
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