Re: Sysinst support for installing source sets

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article <20221.59591.279812.38179%guava.gson.org@localhost>,
Andreas Gustafsson  <gson%gson.org@localhost> wrote:
>I have a patch to sysinst which adds the ability to install source
>sets, and I'm wondering if I should commit it.
>
>The main reason I wrote this was to make it easy for anita
>(http://www.gson.org/netbsd/anita/) to include the source sets in
>automated installs, to facilitate source-level debugging of any
>failing automated tests, but I think it would also be useful to human
>users, and it would fix half of an ancient open PR, install/9582
>(http://gnats.netbsd.org/9582).
>
>There are two user-visible changes.  First, if you choose "Custom
>installation", you will see an additional group called "Source sets"
>similar to the existing group of "X11 sets", and have the option of
>enabling all or part of it.  Choosing "Full installation" still only
>does a full binary installation, so that that option still works with
>install ISOs that do not contain source sets.  It is possible to shoot
>yourself in the foot by explicitly asking to install the source sets
>from an ISO that does not have them, but I'm not sure if anything can
>be done about that without also removing the ability to install the
>source sets via FTP, and it's not like you can't already get into
>similar trouble with the X sets, too.
>
>Second, because source sets reside in a different directory than the
>binary sets both on install media and on FTP sites (as a result of
>being machine independent), sysinst now lets you enter a separate
>"Binary set directory" and "Source set directory" instead of just a
>"Set directory".  A default source set directory is provided and will
>be correct in the typical cases, such as installing by FTP from
>ftp.netbsd.org or from an ISO built using "build.sh iso-image-source".
>
>The patch contains English message strings for the new set names and
>prompts, and uneducated guesses at parts of the other translations,
>but some other translations are missing and will display the English
>text.  If you know German, French, Spanish, or Polish, please review
>the translations and send me any corrections or additions.
>
>The patch is available at:
>
>  http://www.gson.org/netbsd/patches/sysinst-source.patch

I'd commit it. Looks straight-forward to me.

christos