FreeBSD 5.1-BETA2 install results
Scott Long
scott_long at btc.adaptec.com
Thu May 22 09:01:47 PDT 2003
Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> On Thu, May 22, 2003 at 11:28:18AM -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
>
>>On 22-May-2003 Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
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>>>On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 07:10:24PM -0400, Mike Schreckengost wrote:
>>>[...]
>>>
>>>>I just performed a 'clean' install of 5.0-BETA2, and have
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> encountered a few
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>>>>issues which may (or may not!) be considered as 'bugs'.
>>>
>>>>Issues encountered:
>>>>
>>>
>>>[...]
>>>
>>>>3) The 'krb5' and 'ports' distributions failed to install over FTP
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> from
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>>>>ftp://ftp5.FreeBSD.org. I noticed in a prior post to this list that
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> the
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>>>>krb5 distro was folded into 'crypto', which appears to be correct.
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> However,
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>>>>sysinstall still looks for 'krb5' separately and issues an error
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> when it
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>>>>can't be found.
>>>>
>>>
>>>That's clearly still the case; attached is the patch. Please
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> someone
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>>>from re@ review and commit it.
>>
>>I have a similar patch already. However, there is the remaining issue
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> of
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>>the skrb5 distribution. If krb5 is going to be removed, skrb5 needs
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> to
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>>be fixed as well.
>>
>
> While it may seem confusing at a glance, it's okay (skrb5).
> Example: we don't provide "share" distribution, but we have
> "sshare" source distribution. Similarly here, we don't
> provide "krb5" distribution any more (it's part of the
> "crypto" distribution), but we provide "skrb5" distribution,
> in the same location as "scrypto" and "ssecure", in
> ${CHROOTDIR}/R/ftp/crypto/.
>
I'd have to say that I'd rather not perpetuate the inconsistency.
These kinds of things make the installer more and more obscure.
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>>Also, have you tested a release with this patch?
>>
>
> Since it only affects sysinstall(8), I just recompiled the
> latter, and played with it for a bit on a running system.
Great! John's patch looked a little more complete, maybe John
can comment on that.
Scott
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