Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2012 20:07:59 -0800 From: Devin Teske <devin.teske@fisglobal.com> To: Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com> Cc: Devin, Garrett Cooper <yanegomi@gmail.com>, Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net>, Lawrence Stewart <lstewart@freebsd.org>, freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sysinstall as a post-install tool Message-ID: <AE439876-396E-4F5D-AD28-142A500E2E46@fisglobal.com> In-Reply-To: <CAF6rxgkxUR0fOaPEKFKOF9LDJD64BOLxdehPOPrm0NiY__H5Gw@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAF6rxgnVAbRd-mrN%2BykDmXafPzQRJgaw9q=%2Bi%2BXqTzL26gWh5Q@mail.gmail.com> <F80CD5E2-0CC0-4872-9B25-72C4ABCC5F42@xcllnt.net> <4F03AF24.70102@freebsd.org> <4F03BE93.9040708@fuzzwad.org> <CAF6rxgnzLEfRr3jr1GiGC=zsmDFjwfd3r%2B_UVSEQnCudrNETgQ@mail.gmail.com> <964E978A-C016-4A53-A034-8959140CDF68@fisglobal.com> <CAF6rxgkxUR0fOaPEKFKOF9LDJD64BOLxdehPOPrm0NiY__H5Gw@mail.gmail.com>
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On Jan 3, 2012, at 7:30 PM, Eitan Adler wrote: > On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 10:14 PM, Devin Teske <devin.teske@fisglobal.com> = wrote: >> host-setup actually leverages the power and safety of my sysrc(8) utility >> (just added to ports tree as sysutils/sysrc). >>=20 >> In fact, sysrc was written as a test-script solely to feed back into >> host-setup so that we could replace sysinstall's Configure menu. We're j= ust >> not there with all the menu items (but we've got the most important ones= -- >> IMHO -- and made them rock-stable). >=20 > I want to see these tools in the base system. I should mention one more tool that plays into all this... tzdialog. Part of the puzzle to completing our quest of "replacing sysinstall" involv= ed rewriting tzsetup(8). Largely because we had written host-setup(1) to wo= rk with Xdialog(1) and therefore thought that it would be better to have a = tzsetup(8) that also supported Xdialog(1) rather than launching it within a= n xterm(1) (which was not-so-nice, but does work). In rewriting tzsetup(8) to produce tzdialog(1), I strived _very_ hard to ac= tually make it so that you can literally line up the C-code with the sh(1)-= code. Picking out comments that are word-for-word the same is one thing, bu= t re-using variable names and even going as far as to invent struct-analogs= with the same names is another story. All the sh(1)-code follows the exact= same logic as the C-code. When the C-code opens the ISO-3166 table from NI= ST and parses-out the data it needs, so does the sh(1)-code. Line-for-line,= we try to mimic the C-code for the express purpose that we can perhaps rep= lace tzsetup(8), but I'll let you be the judge. I mention all this, because host-setup(1) will automatically pick-up on the= existence of tzdialog(8) and prefer it as a drop-in replacement for tzsetu= p(8), should tzdialog(8) be installed and available. Thus, achieving the ab= ility to actually set the time-zone via host-setup from a menu-item configu= red in a window manager or display manager (HINT: We've got our fvwm2 confi= guration configured with "exec host-setup -sX" which correctly hands-off th= e "-X" flag to tzdialog). I haven't yet tossed the idea out there yet for creating a port for tzdialo= g(8) -- this is the first that I'm suggesting -- but since I'm going to mak= e a request to submit host-setup(8), I'd figure I ought to make a request f= or tzdialog too, since the former can take advantage of the latter if/when = installed. --=20 Devin Links: http://druidbsd.sourceforge.net/ http://druidbsd.sourceforge.net/download/tzdialog.txt _____________ The information contained in this message is proprietary and/or confidentia= l. If you are not the intended recipient, please: (i) delete the message an= d all copies; (ii) do not disclose, distribute or use the message in any ma= nner; and (iii) notify the sender immediately. In addition, please be aware= that any message addressed to our domain is subject to archiving and revie= w by persons other than the intended recipient. Thank you.
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