svn commit: r209787 - head/usr.sbin/sysinstall

Colin Percival cperciva at freebsd.org
Thu Jul 8 08:53:11 UTC 2010


On 07/08/10 01:13, Gabor Kovesdan wrote:
> Em 2010.07.08. 5:28, Randi Harper escreveu:
>>    Remove the ability to upgrade via sysinstall. [...]
>>
>>    Approved by:    cperciva (mentor)
>>    
> Please revert. It has never been discussed in FreeBSD mailing lists,
> while it is mandatory before such important changes.

This was discussed on the freebsd-sysinstall list last month:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-sysinstall/2010-June/000012.html

My personal feeling was that since the level of interest in sysinstall from
FreeBSD developers was generally low, this would be sufficient, so I told
randi to go ahead and commit without also adding noise to -arch; but if you
think the freebsd-sysinstall list is insufficient I'll get her to back this
out pending discussion on -arch.

> I just used this
> feature yesterday to repair my -CURRENT installation on a netbook with
> an USB snapshot image. First I tried freebsd-update but it just failed
> to fetch the keys from the servers and was unable to produce any sensual
> error message

Yes, freebsd-update should print a more useful error message when it is asked
to upgrade to a release it doesn't support (freebsd-update only does RELEASEs,
BETAs, and RCs).  But a more *sensual* message is probably not necessary. :-)

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Colin Percival
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