Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 21:12:04 -0400 From: Jon Door <jondoor@udor.net> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSD Installer release 1 Message-ID: <42E98264.3090404@udor.net> In-Reply-To: <20050729005552.GA15011@gothmog.gr> References: <42E972D2.3040405@fubar.geek.nz> <001d01c593d4$6cf320f0$b3db87d4@multiplay.co.uk> <20050729004440.GA3213@odin.ac.hmc.edu> <42E97CBF.4090404@makeworld.com> <20050729005202.GB3213@odin.ac.hmc.edu> <20050729005552.GA15011@gothmog.gr>
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Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >On 2005-07-28 17:52, Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> wrote: > > >>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: >>>> >>>> >>>>>Interesting but the listed bugs preclude its use here and I suspect >>>>>in most environments :( >>>>> >>>>> >>>>I do nearly all my installs without ports, packages, or source: >>>> >>>>pkg_add -r cvsup-without-gui >>>># edit sup files >>>># run cvsup >>>> >>>> >>>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 ports. >>> >>> >>I said I do the INSTALL without them. I just the source tree and ports >>quite being a committer to both of them. >> >> > >This is exactly what I do too. If you also have a local CVS mirror, >like I do, it's much more convenient this way? :-) > > > The local mirror is a nice touch, otherwise the public servers absorb the extra work associated with a clean download of either ports or source in their bandwidth, not to be taken lightly. Also these days the vast majority of my installs hit more than one disk, so I tend to agree with Steven. I don't mean to down play the time and effort that is going into the bsdinstaller, as it is appreciated even by a happy sysinstall'er ; ) Thank You.
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