BSD Installer release 1

[Jon Door]

Giorgos Keramidas wrote:

>On 2005-07-28 17:52, Brooks Davis <brooks at one-eyed-alien.net> wrote:
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>>On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 07:47:59PM -0500, Chris wrote:
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>>>Brooks Davis wrote:
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>>>>On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 01:28:17AM +0100, Steven Hartland wrote:
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>>>>>Interesting but the listed bugs preclude its use here and I suspect
>>>>>in most environments :(
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>>>>I do nearly  all my installs without ports, packages, or source:
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>>>>pkg_add -r cvsup-without-gui
>>>># edit sup files
>>>># run cvsup
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>>>Unnn - I may have missed a huge part of this... But, if your doing
>>>cvsup, and its the ports tree you are cvsupping - then you ARE using ports.
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>>I said I do the INSTALL without them.  I just the source tree and ports
>>quite being a committer to both of them.
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>This is exactly what I do too.  If you also have a local CVS mirror,
>like I do, it's much more convenient this way? :-)
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The local mirror is a nice touch, otherwise the public servers absorb 
the extra work associated with a clean download of either ports or 
source in their bandwidth, not to be taken lightly. Also these days the 
vast majority of my installs hit more than one disk, so I tend to agree 
with Steven.

I don't mean to down play the time and effort that is going into the 
bsdinstaller, as it is appreciated even by a happy sysinstall'er ; )  
Thank You.