obvious effects are that most of the automagically chosen defaults
will now be displayed while going through the menu, and an improved
error handling thanks to the more detailed error status reporting.
2.2 fodder, but i'll leave it to Jordan's review.
sysinstall's new User&group menu will use it, hence it's a 2.2
candidate despite of providing new functionality.
Submitted by: David L. Nugent, <davidn@blaze.net.au>
bogus or overly complex and really needed to be done more consistently
and sanely throughout - no question about it. Done.
Suggested-By: Paul Traina <pst@Shockwave.COM>
(1) Print out reason when port is ignored because of NO_CDROM,
RESTRICTED, IS_INTERACTIVE, (not) IS_INTERACTIVE, BROKEN,
REQUIRES_MOTIF or NO_PACKAGE.
Submitted by: obrien
(2) Add new special file in pkg/: DISPLAY. (Cf. man pkg_create)
(3) Minor bugfix in clean-depends target, which sometimes executed
"make clean" in the current directory. (Which is probably ok, but
is wrong nonetheless.)
which will also need to be brought in before this screen will work.
Add some commentary about how the slip startup code is bogus.
Steal Joerg's loop for more properly closing all files and graft it into
the EHS startup. My loop was functional but more bogus.
section.
Added Takenori KATO to the developers section. (I'm surprised that he wasn't
listed even in the additional contributors section despite his work on pc98.)
tar(1), but actually uses cpio(1). Many people are getting confused
about the lack of a tar on the fixit floppy, and simply don't know
that cpio can basically handle tar format fine (or they simply don't
know how to invoke cpio).
list in alphabetical order.
Added following persons to the additional contributor list. They have been
missing from the list but listed as maintainer of some port.
Committers should pay much more attention to maintain the contributor list!!
Andrew Stevenson <andrew@ugh.net.au>
Boyd Faulkner <faulkner@mpd.tandem.com>
Mike McGaughey <mmcg@cs.monash.edu.au>
Paul Fox <pgf@foxharp.boston.ma.us>
Rob Mallory <rmallory@csusb.edu>
o Incorporate some of Tatsumi's bug fixes.
o Remove the xperimnt and commerce distribution items; they haven't
been actual distributions for awhile.
o Try to sanitize the device checking code a little more.
o Cosmetic work on the network code.
