Sysinstall is still inadequate after all of these years
Rob Lytle
jan6146 at gmail.com
Wed Jul 2 18:51:50 UTC 2008
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.
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 think the CD switching problem would be to install all the packages at
once from CD1, then CD2, then CD3. As for the second case, I don't know
enough about the infrastructure to suggest any thing except to perhaps
comment that code in its entirety or put in switch to bypass already
installed dependencies.
I wish I knew more about your infrastructure to fix this myself. Is it
written in Python? Thats the only language I'm not so rusty at. I've
programmed in 5 languages, but that was long ago. I'm old. But someone who
knows the system could probably fix it fast. I think this is such an
inherent infrastructure problem that has existed so long that a bug report
would be futile.
Food for thought. Thanks,
Rob
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