Mark Kettenis <mark.kette...@xs4all.nl> wrote: > > From: "Theo de Raadt" <dera...@openbsd.org> > > Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2022 10:02:40 -0700 > > > > An OpenBSD machine only has one OpenBSD install. > > I have to disagree here. Not everyone has a pile of test machines > lying around.
Are you going to work on the install script? And then, after that, on the feature requests for sysupgrade? > Well, that is the real question: will this increase complexity? It will increase complexity. > We > currently have code that makes what I'd describe as an "educated > guess" at what is the OpenBSD root disk of a machine. If we can > replace that with something that finds the disk based on its DUID, > that would make things more robust and might even decrease complexity > in the installer. I don't believe either of you. I believe that is_rootdisk() will be replaced with 30 lines of kernel code, 10 lines in distrib/special/sysctl/sysctl.c, and 5 lines of shell script .. AND AFTER THAT IS DONE, a bunch of extensions will be proposed for various other system install / update features, which will then increase complexity. And I claim that will happen because this is not proposing 1 new sysctl, it is proposing 2 of them, without explaining why there needs to be 2. I think the explanation for that is "undisclosed goals".
