From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 29 00:52:07 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org 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 8250D16A41F for ; Fri, 29 Jul 2005 00:52:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from brdavis@odin.ac.hmc.edu) Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (Odin.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.75]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69FA743D62 for ; Fri, 29 Jul 2005 00:52:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from brdavis@odin.ac.hmc.edu) Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j6T0q3ox005984; Thu, 28 Jul 2005 17:52:03 -0700 Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.13.0/8.13.0/Submit) id j6T0q2gQ005983; Thu, 28 Jul 2005 17:52:02 -0700 Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 17:52:02 -0700 From: Brooks Davis To: Chris Message-ID: <20050729005202.GB3213@odin.ac.hmc.edu> References: <42E972D2.3040405@fubar.geek.nz> <001d01c593d4$6cf320f0$b3db87d4@multiplay.co.uk> <20050729004440.GA3213@odin.ac.hmc.edu> <42E97CBF.4090404@makeworld.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="+g7M9IMkV8truYOl" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <42E97CBF.4090404@makeworld.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=8.0 tests=none autolearn=no version=2.63 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on odin.ac.hmc.edu Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Steven Hartland , Andrew Turner Subject: Re: BSD Installer release 1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 00:52:07 -0000 --+g7M9IMkV8truYOl Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 07:47:59PM -0500, Chris wrote: > Brooks Davis wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 01:28:17AM +0100, Steven Hartland wrote: > >=20 > >>Interesting but the listed bugs preclude its use here and I suspect=20 > >>in most environments :( > >=20 > >=20 > > I do nearly all my installs without ports, packages, or source: > >=20 > > pkg_add -r cvsup-without-gui > > # edit sup files > > # run cvsup >=20 > Unnn - I may have missed a huge part of this... But, if your doing > cvsup, and its the ports tree you are cvsupping - then you ARE using port= s. I said I do the INSTALL without them. I just the source tree and ports quite being a committer to both of them. I just find the copies on the release media a waste of time to install since I'll just be nuking them and installing new copies from cvs. I was attempting to point out that the currently missing features while important to the overall experience, aren't critical to being able to get a system up and running configured how ever you like so long as you have a decent network connection (which you presumably do if you're going to be downloading a 300MB iso to test out an installer. :) -- Brooks --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --+g7M9IMkV8truYOl Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFC6X2yXY6L6fI4GtQRAhyKAJoDecPOEmkdAnZvGIRZj9M+bvCjgwCg30VV LEI9jYbz5YJ9R3R3CQ7sv5s= =Sced -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --+g7M9IMkV8truYOl--