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From: Oleg Pudeyev <oleg@bsdpower.com>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: sysinstall should be fixed to work with bsdinstall packages
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>Number:         174470
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       sysinstall(8): should be fixed to work with bsdinstall distributions
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-sysinstall
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Dec 16 08:30:01 UTC 2012
>Closed-Date:    
>Last-Modified:  Mon Dec 17 23:20:00 UTC 2012
>Originator:     Oleg Pudeyev
>Release:        9.1-release
>Organization:
>Environment:
Not installed yet
>Description:
Trying to install freebsd 9.1.

bsdinstall has a number of issues that I will file shortly.

I gave up trying to install 9.0 when I tried it a year or so ago. This time I had the idea of trying sysinstall, which appeared to work (what a relief) until the package retrieval when it claimed that neither my memstick image had the packages it wanted nor any of the mirrors.

This was puzzling to say the least, as the files clearly were there.

Eventually I came across an explanation: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2012-January/065681.html

While the "obvious" solution is to delete sysinstall from existence, I would propose that instead it be adapted to use bsdinstall packages as bsdinstall has plenty of issues and, judging by them existing since 9.0 and the list of open bug reports here, not much maintenance.
>How-To-Repeat:
Try to install 9.1
>Fix:
Teach sysinstall xz and new package layout?

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-bugs->freebsd-sysinstall 
Responsible-Changed-By: eadler 
Responsible-Changed-When: Sun Dec 16 15:27:49 UTC 2012 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
fix synopsis and assign 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=174470 

From: Devin Teske <devin.teske@fisglobal.com>
To: <bug-followup@FreeBSD.org>, <oleg@bsdpower.com>
Cc: Devin Teske <dteske@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: bin/174470: sysinstall(8): should be fixed to work with bsdinstall packages
Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2012 15:02:23 -0800

 Another plan that I have in-motion is to [eventually] MFC bsdconfig to 9.x.
 
 Since bsdconfig is all about resurrecting sysinstall's post-install capabil=
 ities (package management included), the lay-of-the-land in 9.x should be:
 
 sysinstall is for legacy package management
 bsdconfig is for pkgng-based package management
 
 We should re-evaluate this PR whence bsdconfig is MFC'd to a 9 release as I=
  suspect it will fill the need/requirements of this PR.
 --=20
 Devin
 
 NOTE: bsdconfig is already in HEAD and you can play with it -- but you need=
  WITH_BSDCONFIG in src.conf(5) (alternatively, if you have the source check=
 ed out, you can simply cd to usr.sbin/bsdconfig and say "make all install" =
 to get started with bsdconfig(8) immediately).
 
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From: Oleg Pudeyev <oleg@bsdpower.com>
To: Devin Teske <dteske@freebsd.org>, bug-followup@freebsd.org
Cc:  
Subject: Re: bin/174470: sysinstall(8): should be fixed to work with bsdinstall packages
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2012 17:11:41 -0500

 I apologize, when I said "packages" I meant "distributions" (base/kernel/manpages etc.).

From: Devin Teske <devin.teske@fisglobal.com>
To: <bug-followup@FreeBSD.org>, <oleg@bsdpower.com>
Cc: Devin Teske <dteske@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: bin/174470: sysinstall(8): should be fixed to work with bsdinstall packages
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2012 15:18:01 -0800

 Ah, that changes things a bit.
 
 I'll edit the PR for you.
 
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