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# $NetBSD: TODO,v 1.11 1998/01/09 18:56:57 perry Exp $
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Things we should try and do before 1.3 release....
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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-mouned fileystems before install newfs.
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Abort with message.
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-- check for already-moutend fileystems 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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-- Use bootp or dhcp to get network info (hostname, domain name,
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name servers, ...)
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Things to do ....
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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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-- Add setting timezone
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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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-- A little more clean-up of the run_prog suite so things worke
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nicely for all ports.
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-- Check-in of files for amiga and other ports that will use
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sysinst for 1.3.
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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 jst 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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-- Set rc.configured.
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Or at least remind users to edit 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 intsead 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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Or configure tmp on mfs.
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-- Add support for SLIP (for pc532) and/or PPP.
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