Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 22:47:36 +0200 From: Valentin Nechayev <netch@lucky.net> To: Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org> Cc: "current@freebsd.org" <current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: My project wish-list for the next 12 months Message-ID: <20041202204735.GA74249@lucky.net> In-Reply-To: <41AE3F80.1000506@freebsd.org> References: <41AE3F80.1000506@freebsd.org>
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Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 15:02:40, scottl wrote about "My project wish-list fo= r the next 12 months":=20 [...] > 2. New installer. I know some people still consider this a joke, but > the reality is that sysinstall is no longer state of the art. It's > fairly good at the simple task that it does, but it's becoming harder > and harder to fix bugs and extend functionality in it. It's also > fairly unfriendly to those of us who haven't been using it since 1995. > The DFly folks have some very interesting work in this area > (www.bsdinstaller.com) and it would be very good to see if we can > collaborate with them on it. If we're going to discuss admin-friendiness... - Resplit distribution sets. It's simply shame when unpacking base overwrit= es existing log files (e.g. during binary upgrade). At least /etc and /var/log _must_ be separated. Also, I consider openbsd scheme to be pleasant: separate build tools set (gcc, binutils, etc.) =66rom main functioning set. As maximum, convert them into packages and register along with ports. - Fix the most ugly sysinstall features. E.g. setting active flags on all partitions by default, along with setting MBR, leads to unbootable system. This was _constant_ students' error on FreeBSD administration courses. - Provide more administrative tools. For now, one can't see interface queue lengths, netgraph queue lens, tune their sizes, calculate memory occupied by a bunch of processes without multiple counting shared pages... -netch-
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