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This commit only physically moves the sources - there are no other changes, to maximize the probability that this will be treated as a rename if we ever do manage to migrate away from CVS. Moving sysinst has been discussed on and off for years and has two goals: making it easier to work on sysinst, and also making sysinst available on running systems for use installing chroots and VM images and other such things. None of the latter is possible yet, but as they say, one thing at a time. Doing this now was approved in an impromptu fashion by mrg, riz, riastradh, me, and groo.
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# $NetBSD: TODO,v 1.1 2014/07/26 19:30:44 dholland Exp $
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Things to do .... in no specific order.
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-- On error messages, do something to allow the user to
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see any errors from anything run by run_prog().
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Ideas suggested maximum entropy <entropy@zippy.bernstein.com>.
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are:
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#1:
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if (run_prog("foo") != 0)
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sleep(5);
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#2:
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endwin();
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run_prog("foo");
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printf("press return to continue");
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getchar();
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initscr();
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#3: (modification of #2):
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endwin();
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if (run_prog("foo") != 0) {
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printf("press return to continue");
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getchar();
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}
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initscr();
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#4:
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Manually fork and exec everything, dup2 fd's 1 and 2
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onto sockets in the child, and paginate the output in
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your curses app :-)
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We currently implement a special-case variant of #1 for untarring
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release sets, since the GNU tar in 1.3 fails to report many
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errors in its exit status.
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-- "browse" for a local directory to get the
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distribution set from. Maybe just allowing the user to shell
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out and look around is good enough (this needs more thought).
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-- check for already-mounted filesystems before install newfs.
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Abort with message.
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-- check for already-mounted filesystems before upgrade fsck.
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(ignore?)
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-- check for already-mounted filesystems before upgrade mount.
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Continue, if device mount is where we wanted it?
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(Jonathan ran into the above 3 by upgrading from a live
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system to a scratch disk. sysinst copied the live /etc/fstab
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to the target. The upgrade failed because sysinst wanted
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to mount the active system's /usr. Could happen when a
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real upgrade aborts, even running from ramdisk root.)
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-- Handle ccd's and raid's during an upgrade.
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-- Use bootp or dhcp to get network info (hostname, domain name,
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name servers, ...)
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-- Things like having config_network()
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possibly use the information on the fixed disk instead of having
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to ask everything.
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-- Build the disktab as a profile, not a true /etc/disktab so it
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doesn't overwrite the real disktab.
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-- Have both ftp and floppy gets get the file, extract the file,
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and then remove the file before going on to the next set to
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save disk space.
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-- Set current time and date.
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-- Configure NTP servers, set NTP in rc.conf
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-- On i386 (and others) allow for storing localtime in the RTC.
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Need to patch kernel variable with offset from UTC. Any
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other kernel variables we might want to patch as well???
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-- A little more clean-up of the run_prog suite so things work
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nicely for all ports.
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-- fix "disklabel -r -w" vs. "disklabel -w": I still don't grok why
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the -r, and the manpage says it will lose totally on sparcs.
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Phil, was there some reason to bypass the incore label on i386?
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Can we just do "disklabel -w" everywhere?
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-- Michael bumped the in-memory disklabel struct up to 16 entries.
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Also add a runtime check in case that grows in future
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(e.g., slices). Maybe bump to 32 entries just in case.
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-- Fix sanity-check message code. It currently gets over-written
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immediately by the following message.
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-- check for disklabel edits changing active root partition.
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reject.
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-- remove any possibly-stale ld.so.cache files from the target
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/etc after unpacking sets. Maybe just don't copy ld.so.cache
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from /etc.old?
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-- Full configuration of rc.conf?
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-- If we're doing a fresh install and there's already a label
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on the disk, maybe use that instead of the compiled-in default
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label?
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-- symlinks for /tmp (/tmp -> /var/tmp or some such)
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-- Do non-standard installs from arbitrary tar files (?)
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-- Install binary packages. (possibly a second program
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run after installation.)
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-- Provide the user a menu to select each installation step on
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its own. Currently there's no way to repeat steps or leave
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them out. (See the Debian installer for a good example.)
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-- Allow the user to install binary snapshots available from releng.
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This could be done in the following way:
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* list the available snapshots in ftp.NetBSD.org
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(eg.: ls /pub/NetBSD-daily/*/*/${ARCH} using ftp(1)).
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* present the user with the possible selections (handle the
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case of zero options).
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* set the variables and install via FTP showing first the
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FTP installation screen.
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