svn commit: r209832 - head/usr.sbin/sysinstall

[Doug Barton]

On Thu, 8 Jul 2010, Randi Harper wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 2:28 PM, Gabor Kovesdan <gabor at freebsd.org> wrote:
>> Em 2010.07.08. 23:26, Randi Harper escreveu:
>>>
>>> Author: randi
>>> Date: Thu Jul  8 21:26:26 2010
>>> New Revision: 209832
>>> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/209832
>>>
>>> Log:
>>>   Revert r209787 pending further discussion.
>>>
>>>   Approved by: cperciva (mentor)
>>>
>>
>> Thanks! As I mentioned on IRC, I'll also try to improve this feature, I'm
>> just very busy with other projects at the moment.

Unfortunately the road to the current sysinstall hell was paved with 
just such good intentions. My suggestion is that we all get out of the 
way of the people who are, actually, DOING the work. :)

> As was mentioned on IRC, I think a good stopgap would be to at least
> remove the upgrade option from the main menu. It's not really an
> acceptable form of upgrade, it doesn't do an intelligent merging of
> config files. It would be better placed in the Fixit submenu if we're
> going to be leaving it around for a while and renaming it to something
> like "Mangle My Filesystem". :P

Sounds like a better option would be to just remove it from the menu 
altogether and ifdef 0 the code. That way if $SOMEONE wants to step in 
and fix the existing code within a reasonable period of time (6 months 
or less?) then they will still have that option, but users won't suffer 
in the meantime.


Doug

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