svn commit: r225937 - in head: . release release/amd64 release/i386 release/ia64 release/pc98 release/powerpc release/scripts release/sparc64 usr.sbin usr.sbin/sysinstall

[Doug Barton]

On 10/03/2011 16:32, Craig Rodrigues wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> If pc-sysinstall can be a drop-in replacement for sysinstall in
> "SCRIPT SYNTAX" mode, even better.  sysinstall needs to go...
> while people do use it, it has a lot of problems that aren't getting fixed,
> and it is clear that bsdinstall is the future for FreeBSD installation.

My initial point was not about installation, it was about
post-installation configuration. We don't have a new tool for that yet.

> Nathan is doing a good thing by forcing the issue by removing
> it....there is too much brokenness in sysinstall that is not getting
> fixed, and the sooner we can move to
> bsdinstall/pc-sysinstall, the better.
> 
> Since the sysinstall removal is happening only in HEAD/10.0, we have
> some time to fix the issues before 10.0 is released.

Sorry, that's backwards. Garrett was right.

I'll have no objection to sysinstall being gone in 10.0-RELEASE after
it's lived with the deprecated tag in 9.x, but the new functionality
needs to be feature complete first. And for the record, yes I am aware
that this problem is why sysinstall has lived so long in the first place.

I should also point out for the record that I don't see anything
malicious in Nathan's actions, my only concern is that they are premature.


Doug

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