categories, view packages, mark packages for installation, de-installation,
or re-installation, calculate and track dependencies, as well as ability to
review selections.
Still to come is the actual processing of selections (performing the
various actions associated with the user's selections, such as installing
dependencies first, then selections, etc.).
X11 side of things from bleeding into Xdialog(1) stderr output). It should
be duely noted that such errors are not a by-product of anything in the
Xdialog(1) utility or API, but optional libraries that it can link against
(such as Gtk1 versus Gtk2; if you compile xdialog from ports against Gtk2
AND misconfigure your fonts or generally make Gtk2 unhappy, these warning
messages can bleed into the captured stderr -- that is we we sanitize!).
possible to save keystrokes. Second, overhaul startup/rcdelete for much
improved performance. Last, but not least, kill-off useage of --clear
and implement --keep-tite in harmony to minimize jarring transitions.
Also, fix local variable names where necessary while we're here with
other minor comment-enhancements/typo-corrections.
improve debugging initialization. Also fixup USAGE statements while we're
here. Also, change initialization of main program to _not_ change working
directory, allowing the debugFile to be relative without confusion.
accessing files from various types of media nice and abstracted away from
the wet-work involved in preparing, validating, and initializing those
types of media. This will be used for the package management system module
and other modules that need access to files and want to allow the user to
decide where those files come from (either in a scripted fashion, prompted
fashion, or any combination thereof).
Heavily inspired by sysinstall and even uses the same reserved words so
that scripts are portable. Coded over months, tested continuously through-
out, and reviewed several times.
Some notes about the changes:
- Move network-setting acquisition/validation routines to media/tcpip.subr
- The options screen from sysinstall has been converted to a dialog menu
- The "UFS" media choice is renamed to "Directory" to reflect how sysinstall
treats the choice and a new [true] "UFS" media choice has been added that
acts on real UFS partitions (such as external disks with disklabels).
- Many more help files have been resurrected from sysinstall (I noticed that
some of the content seems a bit dated; I gave them a once-over but they
could really use an update).
- A total of 10 media choices are presented (via mediaGetType) including:
CD/DVD, FTP, FTP Passive, HTTP Proxy, Directory, NFS, DOS, UFS, Floppy, USB
- Novel struct/device management layer for managing the issue of passing
more information than can comfortably fit in an argument list.
which was to self-initialize during the first function-call. This didn't work
so well because the first call was may or may-not be within a sub-shell
(which prevented proper setup of the pass-thru file descriptor, resulting in
dialogs that would not display).
Approved by: adrian (co-mentor) (implicit)
stable/9/usr.sbin/sysinstall/help/shortcuts.hlp (reproduced below):
If /usr/sbin/sysinstall is linked to another filename, say
`/usr/local/bin/configPackages', then the basename will be used
as an implicit command name.
To get a list of modules you can link to, see `bsdconfig -h' output.
Approved by: adrian (co-mentor) (implicit)
problem with using a msgbox was one of truncation in the case of Xdialog(1)
and lack of screen real-estate (since the msgbox is not scrollable in X11
while a textbox is).
The textbox renders the text much better and is more appropriate for this
type of data display.
Approved by: adrian (co-mentor) (implicit)
improve upon the system by giving the user a "Help" button instead of requiring
the user to press F1.
NOTE: In FreeBSD-9 and higher, dialog(1) does not support the F1 hook, so the
mechanism for providing help to the user had to be changed to a button.
This now means we can resurrect *.hlp files from usr.sbin/sysinstall/help/ as-
is and reusing them as-needed in bsdconfig (holding to the goal of losing as
little functionality from sysinstall as possible).
Reviewed by: adrian (co-mentor)
Approved by: adrian (co-mentor)
disconnected under the WITH_BSDCONFIG flag (a good idea since this version of
sysrc(8) indeed requires the `sysrc.subr' module installed by bsdconfig(8)).
Multiple reasons sysrc should not simply continue to live in ports. The most
important being that it is tightly coupled with the base.
Approved by: adrian (co-mentor)
"clean-room" environment used to query rc.conf(5) parameters.
This brings bsdconfig(8)'s sysrc.subr in-line with both the sysrc(8) manual
[provided by sysutils/sysrc] and sysrc(8)'s own sysrc.subr (now identical to
bsdconfig(8)'s sysrc.subr as of this patch).
Finally, this will allow a clean import of sysutils/sysrc (sans sysrc.subr,
already provided here).
Reviewed by: jilles
Approved by: adrian (co-mentor)
