svn commit: r223897 - in head: release usr.sbin/bsdinstall/scripts

[Nathan Whitehorn]

On 07/12/11 05:04, Vadim Goncharov wrote:
> Hi Nathan Whitehorn!
>
> On Sat, 9 Jul 2011 23:01:54 +0000 (UTC); Nathan Whitehorn<nwhitehorn at FreeBSD.org>  wrote:
>
>> New Revision: 223897
>> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/223897
>> Log:
>>    Per request of the docs team, install docs as packages, instead of via
>>    the normal distfile mechanism. Thanks to Marc Fonvieille for the patch and
>>    for putting up with me taking entirely too long to commit this!
> [...]
>>   		"Network" "Networking configuration" \
>>   		"Services" "Set daemons to run on startup" \
>>   		"Time Zone" "Set system timezone" \
>> +		"Handbook" "Install FreeBSD Handbook (requires network)" \
> [...]
>> +    --checklist "This menu will allow you to install the whole documentation set
>> +from the FreeBSD Documentation Project: Handbook, FAQ and articles.\n\n
>> +Please select the language versions you wish to install.  At minimum,
>> +you should install the English version, this is the original version
>> +of the documentation.\n\n
>> +NB: This requires a working, configured network connection." 0 0 0 \
> [...]
>> +	en	"English Documentation (recommended)" ${DIST_DOC_EN:-on} \
> Umm, _configured network_ even for original English docs? In 8.2R those doc
> packages for every lang were installed by sysinstall from CD (DVD1 actually),
> as it should really be for new user - e.g. if network could be configured only
> after reading Handbook, installing mpd5 from CD/DVD packages, and so on.
>
> Or am I missing something, and it will still be available on the disk?
>

The packages are really big (40 MB per), and there's only a small amount 
of space available on the disc. We *could* fit the English ones, but it 
badly complicates the release scripts to begin doing package generation, 
and Marc and I decided to do it this way.
-Nathan