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12-Feb-2015 |
cperciva |
Step 1 of eliminating the "games" distribution: Move binaries to /usr/bin; update paths; and include everything in the "base" distribution.
The "games" distribution being optional made sense when there were more games and we had small disks; but the "games-like" games were moved into the ports tree a dozen years ago and the remaining "utility-like" games occupy less than 0.001% of my laptop's small hard drive. Meanwhile every new user is confronted by the question "do you want games installed" when they they try to install FreeBSD.
The next steps will be:
2. Removing punch card (bcd, ppt), phase-of-moon (pom), clock (grdc), and caesar cipher (caesar, rot13) utilities. I intend to keep fortune, factor, morse, number, primes, and random, since there is evidence that those are still being used.
3. Merging src/games into src/usr.bin.
This change will not be MFCed.
Reviewed by: jmg Discussed at: EuroBSDCon Approved by: gjb (release-affecting changes)
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24-Jun-2010 |
imp |
Bring in Kris Moore's pc-sysinstall shell script from PC-BSD. This shell script is the back end logic necessary for an installer. It contains both query routines to allow a front-end installer to present reasonable choices to the user and also action routines which allow the front end installer to put a FreeBSD distribution onto a disk. It supports installing onto the usual suspects, as well as advanced features like Mirroring, ZFS, Encryprion and GPT labels.
While this is only the back-end of the installer, it can do unattended scripted installations. In PC-BSD's world view, all installations are scripted and all the front-end does is write the script. As such, it is useful in its own right.
This has been extensively tested over the past several releases of PC-BSD. However, differences between that environment and FreeBSD suggest there will be a period of shake-out while those differences are discovered and corrected.
A text-based front-end is in the works. For the GUI-based front-end, you can use the PC-BSD distribution.
Kris' BSDcan paper on pc-sysinstall is linked off his talk on the BSDcan site: http://www.bsdcan.org/2010/schedule/events/173.en.html
The man page is written by Josh Paetzel, and I wrote the Makefiles for the FreeBSD integration. Kris wrote the rest.
This represents version r7010 in the PC-BSD repo. http://svn.pcbsd.org/pcbsd/current/pc-sysinstall
Submitted by: kris@ Sponsored by: iX Systems
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