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

[Gabor Kovesdan]

Em 2010.07.08. 10:53, Colin Percival escreveu:
> 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.
>    
Imo, it should go to current at . It's the only officially supported 
installer, which also implies that it's a default piece of software that 
you just cannot avoid while installing.
>    
>> 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).
Another reason to keep this feature then. And what if your installation 
is broken in such a way that you cannot run freebsd-update? Yeah, there 
is the fixit console and the live system but what if I just want to 
overwrite my system with the binaries of the installation media without 
mocking with manual repair? There's no other way to do so, so this 
feature is still useful. If you want to make it clear that it's not 
recommended for updates, let's move it to the repair section as "Quick 
repair from installation media" or something like that.
>    But a more *sensual* message is probably not necessary. :-)
>    
Sorry, bad English. :)

Gabor