On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 5:36 PM, Henning Brauer <henn...@openbsd.org> wrote:
> While reviewing the upcoming second edition of Michael Lucas'
> "Absolute OpenBSD" I actually paid attention to the installer instead
> of my usual autopilot mode ;) and stumbled over the "Do you want to do
> any manual network configuration?" question. I think it is obsolete,
> useless and we should remove it. One, it is barely ever useful (I
> don't remember EVER using it), two, we have a documented way to escape
> to a shell at any point (the ! answer).
>
> pardon typos, net over 3G is a bit laggy at 250km/h with a tunnel
> every other minute.
>
> ok?
>
> Index: miniroot/install.sub
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/src/distrib/miniroot/install.sub,v
> retrieving revision 1.656
> diff -u -p -r1.656 install.sub
> --- miniroot/install.sub 12 Mar 2012 22:45:39 -0000 1.656
> +++ miniroot/install.sub 19 Apr 2012 13:20:11 -0000
> @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
> -# $OpenBSD: install.sub,v 1.656 2012/03/12 22:45:39 halex Exp $
> +# $OpenBSD: install.sub,v 1.655 2011/11/22 14:02:14 krw Exp $
> # $NetBSD: install.sub,v 1.5.2.8 1996/09/02 23:25:02 pk Exp $
> #
> # Copyright (c) 1997-2009 Todd Miller, Theo de Raadt, Ken Westerback
> @@ -486,14 +486,6 @@ showcols() {
> rm -rf -- $_cdir
> }
>
> -# Offer to shell out for manual network configuration, and do so if
> -# the user accepts the offer.
> -manual_net_cfg() {
> - ask_yn "Do you want to do any manual network configuration?"
> -
> - [[ $resp == y ]] && { echo "Type 'exit' to return to $MODE." ; sh ;
}
> -}
> -
> # Create a device.
> #
> # $1 = name of the device to create.
> @@ -1840,8 +1832,6 @@ donetconfig() {
> done
> cp /tmp/resolv.conf /tmp/resolv.conf.shadow
> fi
> -
> - manual_net_cfg
> }
>
> populateusrlocal() {
> Index: miniroot/upgrade.sh
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/src/distrib/miniroot/upgrade.sh,v
> retrieving revision 1.71
> diff -u -p -r1.71 upgrade.sh
> --- miniroot/upgrade.sh 6 Jul 2011 21:12:05 -0000 1.71
> +++ miniroot/upgrade.sh 19 Apr 2012 13:20:11 -0000
> @@ -71,7 +71,6 @@ THESETS="$THESETS site$VERSION-$(hostnam
>
> # Configure the network.
> enable_network
> -manual_net_cfg
>
> startftplist
>
>
> --
> Henning Brauer, h...@bsws.de, henn...@openbsd.org
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Now Michael will need to write the third edition :-)
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