From owner-freebsd-qa Mon Jul 17 13: 9:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-qa@freebsd.org Received: from pike.osd.bsdi.com (pike.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88DCD37BBC0 for ; Mon, 17 Jul 2000 13:09:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@foo.osd.bsdi.com) Received: from foo.osd.bsdi.com (root@foo.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.137]) by pike.osd.bsdi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA06113; Mon, 17 Jul 2000 13:08:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@foo.osd.bsdi.com) Received: (from jhb@localhost) by foo.osd.bsdi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA72875; Mon, 17 Jul 2000 13:07:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <14707.22624.642889.944961@hip186.ch.intel.com> Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 13:07:45 -0700 (PDT) Organization: BSD, Inc. From: John Baldwin To: John Reynolds~ Subject: Re: Problem with installworld Cc: qa@FreeBSD.ORG, Adam Sender: owner-freebsd-qa@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 17-Jul-00 John Reynolds~ wrote: > > [ copying to -qa so that we make sure the problem doesn't exist for 4.1 ] > > [ On Monday, July 17, Adam wrote: ] >> >> Did I miss doing something? I'm in the USA but make.conf says I'm not. >> I didn't tell it that, so something is jumping the gun. >> (I *did* select michigan from the timezone portion, shouldnt that be >> enough clue for >> sysinstall to guess im in USA? >> After editing make.conf so USA_RESIDENT=yes, it works fine. >> What about people not in the USA however? >> > > I also saw this with a 4.0 installation I did two weeks ago on a new box at > home. USA_RESIDENT was set to "no" by default in /etc. I haven't yet > installed > the 4.1-RC snap but we should probably make sure that if somebody sets the > time zone info (during sysinstall) such that they point to a USA zone that we > set USA_RESIDENT=YES in /etc/make.conf, don't you think? > > I do not know if that is the current behavior or not with the 4.1-RC snap, > but > shouldn't be? Ugh, that is a rather ugly hack. Right now we prompt to see if you are a USA resident if you install the crypto code. This will be going away in September anyway when the RSA patent expires, so we can probably just leave it as it is for now. Or we could just always ask the USA resident question regardless of whether or not you ask for crypto. > More info a I find it ... > > -Jr -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-qa" in the body of the message