sysinstall as a post-install tool

[Devin Teske]

-sysinstall@ [re-]BCC'd.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Garrett Cooper [mailto:yanegomi at gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2012 3:50 PM
> To: Eitan Adler
> Cc: Devin Teske
> Subject: Re: sysinstall as a post-install tool
> 
> (sysinstall@ BCCed)
> 
> On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 3:33 PM, Eitan Adler <lists at eitanadler.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > In the the recent sysinstall thread there seems to be general
> > agreement that having a post-install configuration tool is a good
> > thing. Until such a tool is written I think it would be a good idea to
> > use sysinstall for this purpose.  I am willing to do the work to
> > restore sysinstall and maintain it as a post-install tool until a new one is
written.
> >
> > My plan would be to:
> >
> > - Restore sysinstall and libodialog
> > - Statically link libodialog and make it specific to sysinstall
> >       A rewrite of sysinstall to use libdialog is not worth it. It
> > would
> >       be better to just write a new configuration tool at that point.
> > - Remove front end non-configure facing features (ie "upgrade" and
> > installation options)
> > - Remove scripting support from sysinstall
> >
> > Additionally I would agree to
> > - Ensure that sysinstall continues to function as time goes on
> > - Review and test patches to sysinstall
> >
> > What I am not agreeing to:
> > - Rewrite sysinstall
> > - Make a new tool
> >
> > Please follow up to freebsd-sysinstall@
> 
>     Reviving sysinstall solely for this purpose is probably a big step
backwards
> (especially because it's after 9.0-RELEASE): sysinstall needs to be
permanently
> retired and bsdinstall needs work becoming a more complete tool (FWIW,
> iXsystems has tentatively offered to pick up the maintainership of the
installer so
> that it's properly integrated into pc-sysinstall as we originally intended to
do).
>     So we shouldn't be wasting effort on sysinstall. Please talk to Devin
Teske
> about his 'host-setup' tool first.

Eitan,

Do check out the latest version:
http://druidbsd.sourceforge.net/download/host-setup.txt

Garrett,

Maybe it's time to get host-setup added to the ports tree? Will increase its
visibility at least.

Yeah?
-- 
Devin

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