From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 13 19:27:13 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 634D037B401 for ; Tue, 13 May 2003 19:27:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from magic.adaptec.com (magic-mail.adaptec.com [208.236.45.100]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D77E843FA3 for ; Tue, 13 May 2003 19:27:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from scott_long@btc.adaptec.com) Received: from redfish.adaptec.com (redfish.adaptec.com [162.62.50.11]) by magic.adaptec.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h4E2NOZ12666; Tue, 13 May 2003 19:23:24 -0700 Received: from btc.adaptec.com ([10.100.0.149]) by redfish.adaptec.com (8.8.8p2+Sun/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA20886; Tue, 13 May 2003 19:26:59 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3EC1A95E.7040509@btc.adaptec.com> Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 20:26:38 -0600 From: Scott Long User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030425 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Garrett Wollman References: <3EC18AA5.7080307@btc.adaptec.com> <200305140214.h4E2EjdF027566@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <200305140214.h4E2EjdF027566@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.1-BETA: miniinst.iso missing perl5 pkg X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 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, 14 May 2003 02:27:13 -0000 Garrett Wollman wrote: > < said: > > >>The miniinst CD is meant to be the bare minimum to install the system >>for those that are bandwidth-challenged. It contains *NO* packages at >>all, including perl5. As many recall, perl5 was removed from the base >>system a year ago and is now solely available as a port/package. > > > However, perl5 is still a standard part of the system (as witness the > fact that sysinstall looks for it for most of the canned setups); it's > just delivered as a package now rather than a dist. It should be on > any disc image that has the base system installer bits, or else > sysinstall should learn to do something more sensible when those > particular canned setups are selected (e.g., prompt for additional > media choices). > > -GAWollman This of course highlights yet another entry in the long list of sysinstall neglect and shortcomings. I'm not sure what the better choice is for 5.1, attempt to make sysinstall smarter, or just include the perl package on the miniiso. Suggestions? Scott