amd64/177309: sysinstall 'All' distribution selection attempts to install DEBUG kernel

[Rick Miller]

The following reply was made to PR bin/177309; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Rick Miller <vmiller at hostileadmin.com>
To: Scot Hetzel <swhetzel at gmail.com>, freebsd-gnats-submit at freebsd.org
Cc:  
Subject: Re: amd64/177309: sysinstall 'All' distribution selection attempts to
 install DEBUG kernel
Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2013 12:00:49 -0400

 Correct.  I was the one who discovered this and Devin Teske asked me
 to open a PR for it.
 
 
 
 On 3/23/13, Scot Hetzel <swhetzel at gmail.com> wrote:
 > On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 6:41 AM, Rick Miller <vmiller at hostileadmin.com>
 > wrote:
 >> I copied the 8.4-BETA1 directory from the dvd1 ISO and it's contents to a
 >> web server in DocumentRoot at pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/.  Booted a VM to
 >> the ISO and selected HTTP Direct for the media type and entered the URL
 >> without a URI.
 >>
 >> Selecting "All" as to which distributions to install, sysinstall proceeds
 >> until it opens a dialog stating "Unable to transfer the DEBUG distribution
 >> from http://$URL.  Do you want to try to retrieve it again?". I chose "No"
 >> and it continue.
 >>
 >> As for the DEBUG distribution, I previously asked for sysinstall to have
 >> the ability to install a 2nd kernel (Do you remember, Devin?), which we
 >> call DEBUG internally.  Naturally, unless someone generates it, the DEBUG
 >> distribution will not exist in FreeBSD media generated outside of my
 >> company.
 >
 > This is a known issue that was mentioned in the announcement for the
 > testing of 8.4-BETA1:
 >
 > On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 7:17 PM, Glen Barber <gjb at freebsd.org> wrote:
 >> The following known issues are present in 8.4-BETA1
 > :
 >>
 >> 2) Selecting 'All' on the 'Choose Distributions' screen attempts to
 >>    install a DEBUG kernel which is not present in the image so the
 >>    installation will fail.  Just select one of the other distributions
 >>    ("Developer", "Kern-Developer", "User", etc).
 >>
 >
 >
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 Take care
 Rick Miller