sysinst & X11 sets

[Robert Elz <kre%munnari.OZ.AU@localhost>]

I'm not sure if there's a problem or not, but I thought I'd
report an oddity I encountered recently, just in case there
is something that needs to be investigated.

I was installing NetBS current (6.99.10 built July 25 if it
matters - built here using build.sh from sources checked
out the same day) and for reasons I can't explain, even to
myself, I selected a "custom" install, instead of the usual
"full" install that almost everyone uses...  (It wasn't
really intentional, I wanted to install everything, I just
wasn't thinking).

That's not a problem, everything worked as normal, up to the
point where it asks me what sets I want to install, with only
the basic set selected by default - that's all normal.

The problem is that there was no way I could get it to install
anything X11 related, for X11 sets it just said (in the menu)
"None" and wouldn't let me change that to "Yes" (or even "No").
I assume that means that sysinst decided that there were no X11
sets on my CD, but if that's what it decided, it was wrong.

The build was done using "build.sh release" with no non-default
options of any kind, except the locations of where things get
found & placed (the source, dest & release dirs) - nothing that
should have affected the result in any way non-standard at all.

The X11 sets were certainly there, and installed by hand just fine
(and work just fine) - they came from build.sh exactly as it
likes to build and save them, nothing non-standard about that.

I can only guess that (at least in the custom install case)
sysinst is testing for something that no longer exists, and
not finding it.   I haven't done a -current install in quite
a while, but the last 6_BETA installs I did (using the "full
install" option always) all worked fine, including installing
the X11 sets (and in all cases, built using the same script
used in just the same way, just different source & dest trees).

If this is worth looking into, please do...

kre

ps: the "custom install" also gave me "None" as the choice
for source sets, but that is more understandable - the DVD I
was installing from actually had the sources on it, but as
I'd never before seen a sysinst option for installing the
sources, they weren't positioned in any place sysinst would
have been able to locate them (those are a private add on
to the ISO image).