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Date:      Thu, 24 Jun 2010 19:36:44 -0700
From:      Garrett Cooper <yanefbsd@gmail.com>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@freebsd.org>
Cc:        svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r209513 - in head: etc/mtree usr.sbin  usr.sbin/pc-sysinstall usr.sbin/pc-sysinstall/backend usr.sbin/pc-sysinstall/backend-partmanager  usr.sbin/pc-sysinstall/backend-query usr.sbin/pc-s...
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On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 3:21 PM, Warner Losh <imp@freebsd.org> wrote:
> Author: imp
> Date: Thu Jun 24 22:21:47 2010
> New Revision: 209513
> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/209513
>
> Log:
> =A0Bring in Kris Moore's pc-sysinstall shell script from PC-BSD. =A0This
> =A0shell script is the back end logic necessary for an installer. =A0It
> =A0contains both query routines to allow a front-end installer to present
> =A0reasonable choices to the user and also action routines which allow
> =A0the front end installer to put a FreeBSD distribution onto a disk. =A0=
It
> =A0supports installing onto the usual suspects, as well as advanced
> =A0features like Mirroring, ZFS, Encryprion and GPT labels.
>
> =A0While this is only the back-end of the installer, it can do unattended
> =A0scripted installations. =A0In PC-BSD's world view, all installations a=
re
> =A0scripted and all the front-end does is write the script. =A0As such, i=
t
> =A0is useful in its own right.
>
> =A0This has been extensively tested over the past several releases of
> =A0PC-BSD. =A0However, differences between that environment and FreeBSD
> =A0suggest there will be a period of shake-out while those differences
> =A0are discovered and corrected.
>
> =A0A text-based front-end is in the works. =A0For the GUI-based front-end=
,
> =A0you can use the PC-BSD distribution.
>
> =A0Kris' BSDcan paper on pc-sysinstall is linked off his talk on the
> =A0BSDcan site:
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0http://www.bsdcan.org/2010/schedule/events/173.en.html
>
> =A0The man page is written by Josh Paetzel, and I wrote the Makefiles for
> =A0the FreeBSD integration. =A0Kris wrote the rest.
>
> =A0This represents version r7010 in the PC-BSD repo.
> =A0http://svn.pcbsd.org/pcbsd/current/pc-sysinstall
>
> =A0Submitted by: kris@
> =A0Sponsored by: iX Systems

    Maybe now would be a good time to introduce build tunables for
adding/removing pc-sysinstall and/or sysinstall, like pkg_install has?
Thanks,
-Garrett



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