Announcing bsdconfig(8) preliminary

[Ron McDowell]

On 2/10/12 8:35 PM, Devin Teske wrote:
> On Feb 10, 2012, at 5:35 PM, Ron McDowell wrote:
>
>> On 2/10/12 7:20 PM, Devin Teske wrote:
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: owner-freebsd-sysinstall at freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-
>>>> sysinstall at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Ron McDowell
>>>> Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2012 11:37 AM
>>>> To: freebsd-sysinstall at freebsd.org
>>>> Subject: Announcing bsdconfig(8) preliminary
>>>>
>>>> http://fuzzwad.org/bsdconfig/ is a long way from finished, but there is
>>>> enough of a framework available now, that I'm wanting some feedback on.
>>>> Tarballs are out there and I'll guarantee you'll want to look at the
>>>> latest, and not the earlier examples.  The manpage in the tarball is a
>>>> good place to start.
>>>>
>>>> Feel free to talk about it here and ask any questions you want.  The
>>>> direction I go with it will depend [I hope!] on where everyone wants it
>>>> to go.  Thanks in advance.
>>>>
>>> Hi Ron,
>>>
>>> Thank you very much for working on this with everyone.
>>>
>>> I notice that you've centralized the use of "notimplemented" to
>>> /usr/libexec/bsdconfig/notimplemented which makes the per-module files
>>> /usr/libexec/bsdconfig/*.*/notimplemented obsolete.
>>>
>>> I thinking I should clean things up after installation by executing:
>>>
>>> 	cd /usr/libexec/bsdconfig
>>> 	sudo rm -f *.*/notimplemented
>> Absolutely, thanks for pointing that out.  I just cleaned it up on my copy.
>>
>>> Again, thanks for working on this, ... would you mind if I took it and worked on
>>> it this weekend and passed it back to you for review?
>> Go for it!
>>
> How do you feel about implementing "090.time-zone" with my ports addition, sysutils/tzdialog?

tzsetup(8) is already installed in base...I haven't looked at tzdialog, 
does it do more than tzsetup? If so, then tzdialog needs to be included 
here like we've done with host-setup in 120.networking.

> Aside, I have a question about the INDEX file...
>
> Does the exit status of the program-to-be-executed matter in any way to bsdconfig?

Not yet, but it could and probably should...if nothing else, we should 
at least pass the exit code back up the line.

> Reason I ask is because tzdialog has a "-e" flag which may be useful if-desired, causing the exit status to be success if-and-only-if both a zonefile is selected and it was installed without error.

-- 
Ron McDowell
San Antonio TX