sparc64/120999: 7.0-RC2-Installation via FTP fails, wrong path

[John Baldwin]

On Saturday 23 February 2008 11:19:01 am Michael Fuckner wrote:
> >Number:         120999
> >Category:       sparc64
> >Synopsis:       7.0-RC2-Installation via FTP fails, wrong path
> >Confidential:   no
> >Severity:       serious
> >Priority:       low
> >Responsible:    freebsd-sparc64
> >State:          open
> >Quarter:
> >Keywords:
> >Date-Required:
> >Class:          sw-bug
> >Submitter-Id:   current-users
> >Arrival-Date:   Sat Feb 23 16:40:03 UTC 2008
> >Closed-Date:
> >Last-Modified:
> >Originator:     Michael Fuckner
> >Release:        FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE amd64
> >Organization:
> >Environment:
> >
> >Description:
>
> Installing via FTP doesn't work because installation still searches for
> files in snapshot directory and not release.
>
> I'm not sure if this affects other architectures as well.
>
> >How-To-Repeat:
>
> boot from 7.0-RC2-sparc64-bootonly.iso and try to install via ftp from
> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/sparc64/7.0-RC2/
> sysinstall searches for files in /pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/sparc64/7.0-RC2
>
> The path can not be corrected in the options menu.
>
> >Fix:
>
> Correct path in installer or move files back to snapshots directory (not a
> good idea)

Are you sure?  sysinstall tries several different paths:

/* List of sub directories to look for under a given FTP server. */
const char *ftp_dirs[] = { ".", "releases/"MACHINE, "snapshots/"MACHINE,
    "pub/FreeBSD", "pub/FreeBSD/releases/"MACHINE,
    "pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/"MACHINE, NULL };

Also, this doesn't seem to be a sparc64-specific PR.

-- 
John Baldwin