svn commit: r209513 - in head: etc/mtree usr.sbin usr.sbin/pc-sysinstall usr.sbin/pc-sysinstall/backend usr.sbin/pc-sysinstall/backend-partmanager usr.sbin/pc-sysinstall/backend-query usr.sbin/pc-s...

[M. Warner Losh]

In message: <AANLkTimnKRa_iBN1nYKs5YxV-WRbrv5FpdWKwWYt9c_H at mail.gmail.com>
            Garrett Cooper <yanefbsd at gmail.com> writes:
: On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 3:21 PM, Warner Losh <imp at freebsd.org> wrote:
: > Author: imp
: > Date: Thu Jun 24 22:21:47 2010
: > New Revision: 209513
: > URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/209513
: >
: > Log:
: >  Bring in Kris Moore's pc-sysinstall shell script from PC-BSD.  This
: >  shell script is the back end logic necessary for an installer.  It
: >  contains both query routines to allow a front-end installer to present
: >  reasonable choices to the user and also action routines which allow
: >  the front end installer to put a FreeBSD distribution onto a disk.  It
: >  supports installing onto the usual suspects, as well as advanced
: >  features like Mirroring, ZFS, Encryprion and GPT labels.
: >
: >  While this is only the back-end of the installer, it can do unattended
: >  scripted installations.  In PC-BSD's world view, all installations are
: >  scripted and all the front-end does is write the script.  As such, it
: >  is useful in its own right.
: >
: >  This has been extensively tested over the past several releases of
: >  PC-BSD.  However, differences between that environment and FreeBSD
: >  suggest there will be a period of shake-out while those differences
: >  are discovered and corrected.
: >
: >  A text-based front-end is in the works.  For the GUI-based front-end,
: >  you can use the PC-BSD distribution.
: >
: >  Kris' BSDcan paper on pc-sysinstall is linked off his talk on the
: >  BSDcan site:
: >        http://www.bsdcan.org/2010/schedule/events/173.en.html
: >
: >  The man page is written by Josh Paetzel, and I wrote the Makefiles for
: >  the FreeBSD integration.  Kris wrote the rest.
: >
: >  This represents version r7010 in the PC-BSD repo.
: >  http://svn.pcbsd.org/pcbsd/current/pc-sysinstall
: >
: >  Submitted by: kris@
: >  Sponsored by: iX Systems
: 
:     Maybe now would be a good time to introduce build tunables for
: adding/removing pc-sysinstall and/or sysinstall, like pkg_install has?

I think that would be somewhat premature.

Warner