Re: install/34721 (sysinst generated scripts are not OK)

[David Laight <david%l8s.co.uk@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR install/34721; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Laight <david%l8s.co.uk@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: install/34721 (sysinst generated scripts are not OK)
Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 21:24:57 +0000

 On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 10:36:18PM +0000, dholland%NetBSD.org@localhost wrote:
 > Synopsis: sysinst generated scripts are not OK
 > 
 > State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
 > State-Changed-By: dholland%narn.netbsd.org@localhost
 > State-Changed-When: Sat, 09 Feb 2008 22:36:17 +0000
 > State-Changed-Why:
 > PR appears to be spam :(
 
 Actually there is code in sysinst that tries to write out a shell script
 which you night expect to be able to rerun in order to replicate the
 installation.
 However this is all fubar becase it forces sysinst to run programs
 instead of using system calls, and makes any decisions based on the
 filesystem (or user input) stupendously painfull.
 I'd somethimes thought of ripping it out (and transferring some of
 the info to the log file).
 
        David
 
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