Re: FreeBSD Installer Roadmap

2011-02-19 Thread Bruce Cran
On Saturday 19 February 2011 03:04:39 Devin Teske wrote: There are many reasons for this, and none of them are selfish (although it remains possible to drum-up some selfish reason, all of the reasons behind our motivation are in-fact unselfish). Truth-be-told, I welcome the replacement of

FreeBSD Installer Roadmap

2011-02-19 Thread grarpamp
Sysinstall is fine, as I'm sure any replacement will be. So I'll just note a few things I'd like to see in any such replacement... 1 - I used install.cfg's on floppies to clone systems, a lot. Hands on the box were needed with that. Operators skills were in question, so having them use the dialog

Re: HEADS UP: Merge of binutils 2.17

2011-02-19 Thread Dimitry Andric
On 2011-02-16 21:00, Dimitry Andric wrote: So I plan to merge the binutils-2.17 project branch to head this weekend, if there are no further objections. If you have found a showstopper bug, please let me know ASAP. :) Okay, binutils 2.17.50 has now been merged to head in r218822. If you

Re: HEADS UP: Merge of binutils 2.17

2011-02-19 Thread Dimitry Andric
On 2011-02-19 15:35, Dimitry Andric wrote: Okay, binutils 2.17.50 has now been merged to head in r218822. If you compile kernels by hand, make sure to first run make buildworld, or at least make kernel-toolchain, to get a new ld in /usr/obj. Otherwise, linking your kernel might fail. Note,

screen: Could not write /nonexistent

2011-02-19 Thread Joachim Tingvold
Hi, I did a rebuild of my system today. The last time I did this was friday, 4th of february 13:39. After I rebuilt the system, screen produces a short error-message in it's splash-screen (both when starting a new screen-session, and when attaching to an existing session), stating Could

[RFC] Force stdio output streams to line-buffered mode

2011-02-19 Thread Jeremie Le Hen
Hi, I've been annoyed multiple time when running a command such like iostat -x 1 | grep -v ad10 | cat -n The problem stems from two factors: - grep's stdio sees that its stdout is not a terminal, so stdout is full buffered and not line-buffered; - iostat produces output too slowly so

Re: [RFC] Force stdio output streams to line-buffered mode

2011-02-19 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 07:50:43PM +0100 I heard the voice of Jeremie Le Hen, and lo! it spake thus: I've attached a small patch for stdio, so if the environment variable STDIO_IOLBF is set, the output streams will be line-oriented by default. iostat -x 1 | env STDIO_IOLBF=1 grep -v ad10

Re: FreeBSD Installer Roadmap

2011-02-19 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 19/02/2011, at 20:04, grarpamp wrote: 1 - I used install.cfg's on floppies to clone systems, a lot. Hands on the box were needed with that. Operators skills were in question, so having them use the dialog menus properly was a pain and often resulted in non-zeroed disk or half built