Date: 09 Nov 2000 23:06:39 -0800 From: asami@FreeBSD.ORG (Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami) To: Steve Price <sprice@hiwaay.net> Cc: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com>, Jimmy <olgeni@uli.it>, ports@FreeBSD.ORG, pine@freebsd.ady.ro, kris@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.2 BETA ISO image Message-ID: <vqcn1f8e268.fsf@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> In-Reply-To: <20001109202918.S62344@bonsai.knology.net> (Steve Price's message of "Thu, 9 Nov 2000 20:29:18 -0600") References: <olgeni@uli.it> <21255.973810192@winston.osd.bsdi.com> <vqcpuk4eg44.fsf@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> <20001109202918.S62344@bonsai.knology.net>
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* From: Steve Price <sprice@hiwaay.net>
* On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 06:05:31PM -0800, Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami wrote:
* # Ports marked IS_INTERACTIVE won't be packaged at all for obvious
* # reasons -- I won't be able to hit return for packages built from
* # cron. :)
*
* Actually I believe he is talking about ports that are interactive on
* install (not build). Most (if not all) of these have been fixed to
* not require interaction during package builds (nay installs) ...
Yes I know. I'm just pointing out that marking them IS_INTERACTIVE is
not the right solution (and will cause the packages to disappear
entirely).
* ... which is why I suggested to Jordan (in a private mail apparently
* because I haven't seen it come through) that a *very* hackish solution
* of handling ports like pine4 would be to add the following lines to
* the appropriate spot in sysinstall.
*
* setenv("PACKAGE_BUILDING", "t", 1);
* setenv("BATCH", "t", 1);
I'm not sure if I like that, especially the PACKAGE_BUILDING part.
These are security notices and should not be bypassed when people are
sysinstalling packages.
The reason why the install scripts are written to skip the questions
when PACKAGE_BUILDING is defined is because we know that these are
just for packages and people will be asked questions later when they
try to install the packages.
I still think either sysinstall should be fixed or we need to find
another way to keep these off Jordan's CDs.
Actually, thinking about it, won't using sysinstall for an ftp install
pull all the packages down anyway? In that case it's not even a
matter of keeping them off CD's.
Satoshi
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