Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 21:44:06 +0900 From: mistral@imasy.or.jp (Yoshihiko SARUMARU) To: stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: desktop selection on sysinstall and available packages in CD-ROM Message-ID: <010330214406.M0122263@mistral.imasy.or.jp>
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I think this is not a new problem, but I think this is still a problem.
The sysinstall can select user's desktop on installation, for
example KDE, GNOME + Sawfish or + Enlightenment, etc...
But not all of those packages are put into installation CD-ROM,
typically ISO-IMAGE on /pub/FreeBSD/releases/*/ISO-IMAGES/.
Who (or What) is considering what packages should be contained
in ISO-IMAGE, and why he (or it) doesn't care about Desktop
selection menu. Network reachable person doesn't need CD-ROM, so
I think CD-ROM have to help the Internet unreachable person /
situation like installing to his friend's laptop in a cafe.
Actually, I fetched the 4.3rc1-install.iso and look what
packages are contained, and I found WindowMaker isn't
available there (I haven't checked other depended packages yet).
Also I'm afraid of fvwm-1.24r (not fvwm-2.2.4) will be
installed when fvwm2 is selected. because:
/usr/src/release/sysinstall/config.c:
else if (!strcmp(desk, "fvwm2")) {
ret = package_add("fvwm");
if (DITEM_STATUS(ret) != DITEM_FAILURE && gotit("fvwm"))
write_root_xprofile("exec fvwm\n");
}
mistral# cd /cdrom/packages/Latest
mistral# ls -l fvwm*
lr-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 21 3/27 21:33 fvwm.tgz -> ../All/fvwm-1.24r.tgz
mistral# ls -l /cdrom/packages/All/fvwm*
-r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 202647 3/27 23:17 All/fvwm-1.24r.tgz
-r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 913647 3/27 23:18 All/fvwm-2.2.4.tgz
Actually I tested with sysinstall on 23 March 2001 and
4.3rc1-install.iso, I got below message:
> Package fvwm-1.24r read successfully - waiting for pkg_add(1)
If it is difficult to contain all of packages listed in desktop
selection menu, we may have to think about regulating desktop
variation or add notice on the selection screen like "This desktop
may failed to install if you are installing from CD-ROM".
An unexpected failure loose one's nerve very well.
# I don't mention about regular package installation menu here,
# intentionally.
Thanks,
--
Yoshihiko SARUMARU
mail: mistral@imasy.or.jp web: http://www.imasy.or.jp/~mistral/
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