Sysinstall is still inadequate after all of these years

[Gavin Atkinson]

On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 11:23 -0700, Rob Lytle wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> My depressing analysis- YMMV. I've used FreeBSD since 1998.
> 
> 1..Installing the packages off of the menu on the 3 CDROMs is an incredibly
> tedious miserable process.  I had to switch out the CD's around 40 times.
> If you don't believe me, just mark a whole bunch of random packages after
> obtaining the 7.0 release CD's, ad then install.  Its frustrating and almost
> like Windows, except its a bit faster as replacing CD's is faster than
> reboots.

There's been a few reports of this (see e.g. PR misc/123632), but I've
tried recreating it myself without much success.  Do you happen to know
roughly which packages you installed?  I'd really like to fix it, but I
need to be able to recreate it first...

> 2.  When installing any given package, if a dependency is already there ,
> the  package aborts and then goes though some loop where you have to press
> OK half a dozen times.  Thats insane.

I've not seen this either, but I'll see if I can recreate it in a couple
of days.  Do you happen to know if there is a PR about this issue?  If
not, is there any chance you could submit one with more details of the
error messages?

Thanks,

Gaivn