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# 303975 11-Aug-2016 gjb

Copy stable/11@r303970 to releng/11.0 as part of the 11.0-RELEASE
cycle.

Prune svn:mergeinfo from the new branch, and rename it to RC1.

Update __FreeBSD_version.

Use the quarterly branch for the default FreeBSD.conf pkg(8) repo and
the dvd1.iso packages population.

Approved by: re (implicit)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation

# 302408 08-Jul-2016 gjb

Copy head@r302406 to stable/11 as part of the 11.0-RELEASE cycle.
Prune svn:mergeinfo from the new branch, as nothing has been merged
here.

Additional commits post-branch will follow.

Approved by: re (implicit)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation


# 276360 29-Dec-2014 joel

mdoc: remove EOL whitespace.


# 273922 01-Nov-2014 nwhitehorn

Rewrite some of the disk setup documentation to be clearer and contain
less obsolete information. Also move the entropy command down the list --
the list is ordered by likelihood of use rather than alphabetically.

MFC after: 1 week


# 270657 26-Aug-2014 se

More man pages that need to know about vt in addition to syscons.

MFC after: 3 dayS


# 267668 20-Jun-2014 bapt

use .Mt to mark up email addresses consistently (part2)

PR: 191174
Submitted by: Franco Fichtner <franco@lastsummer.de>


# 257872 08-Nov-2013 joel

mdoc: add missing El.


# 257842 08-Nov-2013 dteske

A series of changes tested together as a whole:
+ Add a `-D FILE" command-line option for overriding the path to the
bsdinstall log file (BSDINSTALL_LOG env var).
+ Document new `-D FILE' in the man page for bsdinstall.
+ If FILE in `-D FILE' begins with a +, debug output goes to stdout
(interleaved between dialog(1) invocations/output) as well as to FILE
(minus the leading + of course).
+ If BSDINSTALL_LOG cannot be written, then debugging is disabled (except in
the case of a leading + in the pathname, wherein debug will still be
printed to stdout).
+ Update source code formatting style.
+ Fix a dangling participle ("Begun ..." -> "Began ...")
+ Rewrite the docsinstall script (was necessary to abate direct dependency
on BSDINSTALL_LOG (instead, use fault-tolerant bsdconfig framework which
displays appropriate errors for package management).
NB: docsinstall is still using pkg(8) after this change.
+ Add additional debug output for dhclient/rtsol/wpa_cliscan
+ Display script errors in a textbox rather than just on stdout
+ Update many coments.
+ Add new f_show_err() API call (like f_show_msg but changes the dialog
title to "Error")(see bsdconfig's `common.subr').
+ Add new f_eval_catch() API call for executing a command via eval but not
before logging the command to debug. Several example cases documented in
API header for function in bsdconfig's `common.subr'.
+ Fix dialog auto-sizing when launched as an rvalue to a pipe for indirected
scripts (previously would default to 24x80 sizing in this case, now it can
autosize to full size even when in a pipe chain).
+ Fix bug in f_snprintf if $format argument began with "-"; printf would
misinterpret as a flag. (this is in bsdcofig's `strings.subr').
+ Add accompanying f_sprintf() and f_vsprintf() to go along with already
existing f_snprintf() and f_vsnprintf() (see bsdconfig's `strings.subr').
+ Remove some unnecessary default ZFS datasets from the automatic "zfsboot"
script. Such as: /usr/ports/distfiles /usr/ports/packages /usr/obj /var/db
/var/empty /var/mail and /var/run (these can all be created as-needed once
the system is installed).
+ Remove setuid=off for /usr/home (as discussed from last round of CFT).
+ Fix some i18n string violations in "zfsboot".
+ Bolster debugging output in "zfsboot".
+ Fix some string quoting issues in "zfsboot".
+ Fix some variable scope issues in "zfsboot".
+ Change "Create" to "Install" in "zfsboot" main menu.
+ Increase error checking in "zfsboot" (type-check arguments and such).
+ Add call to "graid destroy" killing automatic metadata (part of the series
of pedantic destructions we do when bootstrapping a new/naked disk).
+ Make judicious use of new f_eval_catch() in "zfsboot".
+ Fixup some variable names for consistency (zfsboot).
+ Fix an underride syntax parameter expansion folly (zfsboot).
+ Confirm layout if not explicitly chosen when blindly proceeding (no
longer have to touch anything on the ZFS menu if it scares you, just
choose the omnibus "Install" option at the top and you'll be prompted to
select vdev type and disks in the layout confirmation dialog).
+ Change numbered menu items to alphabetic for more efficient navigation.
+ Consolidate vdev selection and disk selection into a single stateful
menu which performs validation and allows backing out to each previous
menu as you go deeper.
+ Redesign the ``Last Chance'' dialog (still using the same colors, but
make it conform to a tolerable width and make disks appear in a block-
quote style indented region).
+ Fix a bug wherein we used the a lowercase variable name by accident
(actual variable name declared as all-uppercase) at the time of
initializing fstab(5) (not believed to cause any issues though).
+ Update the geli setup infobox for each provider being initialized
(not just at the onset -- since each ``geli init'' causes kernel messages
to push our infobox off-screen).

Reviewed by: Allan Jude <freebsd@allanjude.com>
Discussed on: -current
MFC after: 3 days


# 256551 15-Oct-2013 dteske

Bump .Dd date (should have been part of SVN r256549)


# 256549 15-Oct-2013 dteske

Man page updates to go along with SVN r256343, introducing zfsboot.


# 256541 15-Oct-2013 dteske

Document BSDINSTALL_TMPBOOT environment variable introduced by SVN r256343.


# 256338 11-Oct-2013 des

After installation, dump 4096 bytes from /dev/random to /entropy in the
newly installed system. This should greatly increase the amount of
entropy available when SSH host keys are generated during first boot.

Reviewed by: markm, nathanw
Approved by: re (gjb)


# 245792 22-Jan-2013 nwhitehorn

Improve documentation of BSDINSTALL_DISTSITE and mdoc.


# 245760 22-Jan-2013 nwhitehorn

Clarify that the setup script is optional.


# 245759 22-Jan-2013 nwhitehorn

Update change date.


# 245758 22-Jan-2013 nwhitehorn

Document bsdinstall scripting as it currently operates. It may change in
the future depending on feedback from people using it to do unattended
system setup.


# 233648 29-Mar-2012 eadler

Remove trailing whitespace per mdoc lint warning

Disussed with: gavin
No objection from: doc
Approved by: joel
MFC after: 3 days


# 233473 25-Mar-2012 joel

mdoc: document title should be all caps.


# 223012 12-Jun-2011 nwhitehorn

I forgot what year it is, apparently.

Submitted by: brucec


# 222998 11-Jun-2011 nwhitehorn

Long-overdue man page for bsdinstall.