Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2011 13:32:52 +1100 From: Lawrence Stewart <lstewart@freebsd.org> To: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-current <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org>, Ron McDowell <rcm@fuzzwad.org> Subject: Re: Removal of sysinstall from HEAD and lack of a post-install configuration tool Message-ID: <4EFA7FD4.10600@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <4EFA1C9C.60601@FreeBSD.org> References: <4EF904F2.4020109@FreeBSD.org> <4EF953ED.9060905@fuzzwad.org> <4EF9B09A.4070103@freebsd.org> <4EFA1C9C.60601@FreeBSD.org>
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On 12/28/11 06:29, Doug Barton wrote: > On 12/27/2011 03:48, Lawrence Stewart wrote: >> On the topic of Doug's actual question, I see minimal sense in >> resurrecting sysinstall in head now. I would suggest it be done much >> closer to (say, 6 months before) the 10.0 release cycle, if no suitable >> post-installation configuration tool has materialised. > > My concern about that approach is that 9.0 hasn't even been released yet > and we've already seen changes that are going to make it hard to > resurrect sysinstall if that's the decision we come to. Waiting another > year or 2 would make it impossible. Which changes are you referring to? I would have thought a reverse merge to undo the deletion of the sysinstall and old libdialog sources would be very minimal work. We'd also probably need a few extra build system changes to make sure old libdialog is perhaps statically compiled into sysinstall as it would be the only in-tree consumer, but that's not hard either. I may be lacking some imagination, but don't really see why it would become harder the longer we wait. Cheers, Lawrence
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