read from CD from 2k to 16k, because in the modern world of meta-packages
(Gnome et al) the length of this list could easily owerflow limit causing
strange things to happen, ranging from installation failure due to list
truncation to complete stack trashing (there is very vague bounds checking).
For example, x11/gnome2-fifth-toe runtime dependencies list is 2,418 bytes
long.
Due to obvious reasons, this is an immediate MFC candidate.
Sponsored by: Porta Software Ltd
MFC after: 1 day
present, this field specifies the media volume that the disc is
contained on. If the volume of a given packages is different than the
current volume of mediaDevice, then the user is prompted --
"This is disc #%d. Package %s is on disc #%d\n"
"Would you like to switch discs now?\n"
If the user selects yes, then DEVICE_SHUTDOWN is called and the user
is then prompted --
"Please remove disc #%d from you drive, and add disc #%d"
This works well for a carefully crafted INDEX file, but more work
needs to be done to sort dependencies on a given package based on the
volume that they reside on, to minimize the amount of disc flipping
required of the user.
This commit is a no-op for normal INDEX files and FreeBSD CDs. These
additional features are only used if the INDEX and cdrom.inf file have
multi-volume support.
attention to the sub-optimal way that we deal with package
dependencies. Traditionally, for each package in an INDEX that the
user wants to add, we check all of the dependencies first even if the
package is already installed. With some GNOME packages, this can
cause package_extract to be called for 50 different dependencies when
we know the top level package is already installed.
The new behavior is to not check dependencies for packages that are
already installed. This fixes a bug where sysinstall gets itself into
a CPU intensive loop when trying to install sawfish gnome with the
most recent ports/INDEX. There is a bug somewhere in the ports INDEX,
but with over 6,400 ports we need to be a little more forgiving here.
names suggest, they perform methods on Device's. In addition, they
check that the pointer passed to them is valid; if it isn't, they
pretend that the action failed. This fixes some crashes due to NULL
dereferences (e.g., PR 26509).
Approved by: jkh (some time ago)
itself verbatim from INDEX. This fixes seg. faults with newer INDEX
files which have some gnome ports with outrageously long run deps.
Approved by: jkh
no as a default. Sysinstall should be both less dangerous and less
annoying as a result of this change, though that's just my opinion
(since they're the defaults which annoy ME the least :).
as redoing all the menus to have proper, or at least non-hallucinogenic,
keyboard accelerators.
This requires my recent update to libdialog to work properly and will
probably also exhibit some other "interesting" behavior while the last
few missing screen clears are found (which is why I'm not going to MFC
immediately). At least now, however, sysinstall does not gratuitously
redraw random screens at the drop of a hat and drive serial console
installers out of their minds.
I backed-out the changes in -current and didn't touch stable at all (I
thought I had my patch order reversed, not what actually happened).
AIEEE! I can't even blame the crack for this one since I broke my
crack pipe a few weeks ago. I think sleep deprivation gets the blame
for this one.
Medal for noticing this one goes to: Jim Bloom <bloom@acm.org>
bringing in DHCP support. The only thing I left out were Poul-Henning's
newfs changes since I'm not sure if he's brought the rest of that support
into -stable yet. If it turns out that this is the case, I'll MFC those
changes too.
on CDs and FTP sites.
o Collapse some redundant code.
o Fix typo'd menu.
o Restrict searches properly to packages rather than categories.
o Small tweaks to signal handling.
All RELENG_3 candidates.
to now detect that CD you just remembered to put in the drive or that
pccard NIC that you've inserted (anybody can put pccardd in an mfsroot image
now you know.. :)
Requested by: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.Stanford.EDU>
