FreeBSD 5.1-BETA: miniinst.iso missing perl5 pkg

[Garance A Drosihn]

At 8:26 PM -0600 5/13/03, Scott Long wrote:
>Garrett Wollman wrote:
>>Scott Long <scott_long at btc.adaptec.com> said:
>>
>>>The miniinst CD is meant to be the bare minimum to install
>>>the system for those that are bandwidth-challenged.  It
>>>contains *NO* packages at all, including perl5.
>>
>>
>>However, perl5 is still a standard part of the system (as
>>witness the fact that sysinstall looks for it for most of
>>the canned setups); it's just delivered as a package now
>>rather than a dist.  It should be on any disc image that
>>has the base system installer bits, ...
>>
>>-GAWollman
>
>This of course highlights yet another entry in the long list
>of sysinstall neglect and shortcomings.  I'm not sure what
>the better choice is for 5.1, attempt to make sysinstall
>smarter, or just include the perl package on the miniiso.
>Suggestions?

Speaking only wrt the 5.1 release, I think we should include
perl on the disc image, even for the mini-install ISO.  We
are already into the code-freeze for 5.1, and (IMO) we have a
long list of things which are much more important to finish
for that release than to *START* some project to address the
many shortcomings of sysinstall.

However, it would be a very good idea to list the fixing of
sysinstall as an explicit requirement for 5.2-release.

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Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad at gilead.netel.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer           or  gad at freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih at rpi.edu