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Re: sysinst & X11 sets



Hi,

> I'm not sure if there's a problem or not, but I thought I'd
> report an oddity I encountered recently, just in case there
> is something that needs to be investigated.

if you think this is for real a problem, please report a PR for that. A mail
on a list can get lost fast, but a PR stays and annoys us. ;-)

> The problem is that there was no way I could get it to install
> anything X11 related, for X11 sets it just said (in the menu)
> "None" and wouldn't let me change that to "Yes" (or even "No").
> I assume that means that sysinst decided that there were no X11
> sets on my CD, but if that's what it decided, it was wrong.

I didn't look deeper into it, but apparently, the message "None" is only used
for set groups, i.e. not a single set (and complementing messages would be
"All" and "Some").
So you didn't get into the menu.

> I can only guess that (at least in the custom install case)
> sysinst is testing for something that no longer exists, and
> not finding it.   I haven't done a -current install in quite
> a while, but the last 6_BETA installs I did (using the "full
> install" option always) all worked fine, including installing
> the X11 sets (and in all cases, built using the same script
> used in just the same way, just different source & dest trees).

sysinst does not check file existence, as you choose the installation method
after set selection and with ftp installation, you wouldn't have sets
available, source sets aren't even bundled on the CD.

> If this is worth looking into, please do...

I just tested this with an older 6.99.8 build, I have nothing newer available
atm. But I'll build a current checkout and retest.

> ps: the "custom install" also gave me "None" as the choice
> for source sets, but that is more understandable - the DVD I
> was installing from actually had the sources on it, but as
> I'd never before seen a sysinst option for installing the
> sources, they weren't positioned in any place sysinst would
> have been able to locate them (those are a private add on
> to the ISO image).

If you press Enter being on it, a submenu should open that lets you select in
detail which sets you want, the same with the source sets.
As you apparently didn't see both of them, something else must be wrong.

I'm not aware of any other button you can press to change the value. Did you
use the Enter button or something else? Which platform are you using?


Regards, Julian

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