RFC: Patches to achieve bsdinstall script without dialogs

[Ellis H. Wilson III]

Another 10 days, another bump.  I'd love to get the ear of a committer 
here who would be willing to drive this to completion.  Unfortunately I 
do not have such privileges.

Best,

ellis

On 06/01/2015 10:17 AM, Ellis H. Wilson III wrote:
> It's been a bit over two weeks since I circulated this.  Does anyone
> have thoughts on the patch?  I apologize for the gentle reminder if this
> was already incorporated, in testing, or otherwise being paid attention to.
>
> Thanks,
>
> ellis
>
> On 05/15/2015 01:01 PM, Ellis H. Wilson III wrote:
>> On 03/24/2015 10:35 AM, Allan Jude wrote:
>>> These changes look ok to me.
>>>
>>> 2 main things: These would need to be based on HEAD not 10.1 in order to
>>> be committed
>>
>> Nathan, Allan, et. al.:
>>
>> Please see attached for a new set of patches based off of HEAD.  Sorry
>> this took some time for me to get back to.  Notes follow:
>>
>> The following experienced no real changes between 10.1 (which my last
>> patches were based on) and HEAD, and therefore can be deemed completely
>> safe:
>>
>>   usr.sbin/bsdconfig/share/common.subr
>>   usr.sbin/bsdinstall/scripts/checksum
>>   usr.sbin/bsdinstall/scripts/script
>>
>> The following experienced changes, but the existing patch went through
>> without any problems.  I visually inspected it afterwards and it looked
>> perfectly fine:
>>
>>   usr.sbin/bsdinstall/partedit/scripted.c
>>
>> The following experienced minor changes such that the patch failed, but
>> only needed minor modifications to achieve the same intent:
>>
>>   usr.sbin/bsdinstall/partedit/partedit.h
>>   usr.sbin/bsdinstall/partedit/partedit.c
>>
>> The following was significantly changed from the 10.1 version.  Since
>> the new version used dpv, which makes ASCII output difficult, the
>> cleanest solution I could identify was to forward port some of the old
>> logic.  There may be a better way to do this, but this is my attempt.  I
>> defer to the original author's best judgement.
>>
>>   usr.sbin/bsdinstall/distextract/distextract.c
>>
>> All of our machines are running 10.1 or older, so I wasn't able to
>> compile and test the changes above since they lack dpv.  I therefore
>> fired up a VM and made sure they at least compile.  Particularly in the
>> last case (distextract), the patch should be tested before being
>> committed.  I apologize I don't have the resources to do this myself
>> currently.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> ellis
>>
>>
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