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Date:      Mon, 9 Apr 2007 11:50:31 -0400
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, "Belov, Sergey" <sbelov@mera.ru>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, roudoud0u@free.fr
Subject:   Re: Sysinstall does not install GENERIC kernel
Message-ID:  <20070409155031.GA31260@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <20070409093908.GE8935@tcbug.org>
References:  <39EC34D18C53EA428BA9A05A01CB2E8C8F4BD8@qmail.merann.ru> <20070409061241.GA4467@xor.obsecurity.org> <20070409093908.GE8935@tcbug.org>

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On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 04:39:08AM -0500, Josh Paetzel wrote:
> Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 09:23:38AM +0400, Belov, Sergey wrote:
> > >=20
> > > > hit the same bug too with FreeBSD-6.1. To workaround this, i've just
> > > > added the distribution set "GENERIC" to dists (this value wasn't
> > > > mentionned on the sysinstall manpage by the way :-( )
> > > > So try with this:
> > > > dists=3Dbase GENERIC catpages info manpages proflibs kernel
> > > > distSetCustom
> > >=20
> > > Thank you. I've also found interesting thread here:
> > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2006-June/123640=
.ht
> > > ml
> > >=20
> > > It seems that automatic installation mechanism is far from perfect and
> > > there's nobody=20
> > > who interested in fixing the problems.
> >=20
> > Are you sure it was not fixed in 6.2?
> >=20
> > Kris
>=20
> distSetCustom has been broken ever since the goo was added to make=20
> sysinstall smart enough to install either GENERIC or SMP depending on=20
> how many processors are in the machine.  After that change was made=20
> the kernels target to distSetCustom stopped working.  My workaround=20
> has been to hack the distSetMinimal target in sysinstall to put in=20
> what I want.  I guess I should've submitted a PR at some point...

Yes.

Kris

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