TODO revision 1.1.2.2
1 1.1.2.2 tls # $NetBSD: TODO,v 1.1.2.2 2014/08/10 07:00:24 tls Exp $ 2 1.1.2.2 tls 3 1.1.2.2 tls Things to do .... in no specific order. 4 1.1.2.2 tls 5 1.1.2.2 tls -- On error messages, do something to allow the user to 6 1.1.2.2 tls see any errors from anything run by run_prog(). 7 1.1.2.2 tls Ideas suggested maximum entropy <entropy (a] zippy.bernstein.com>. 8 1.1.2.2 tls are: 9 1.1.2.2 tls 10 1.1.2.2 tls #1: 11 1.1.2.2 tls if (run_prog("foo") != 0) 12 1.1.2.2 tls sleep(5); 13 1.1.2.2 tls 14 1.1.2.2 tls #2: 15 1.1.2.2 tls endwin(); 16 1.1.2.2 tls run_prog("foo"); 17 1.1.2.2 tls printf("press return to continue"); 18 1.1.2.2 tls getchar(); 19 1.1.2.2 tls initscr(); 20 1.1.2.2 tls 21 1.1.2.2 tls #3: (modification of #2): 22 1.1.2.2 tls 23 1.1.2.2 tls endwin(); 24 1.1.2.2 tls if (run_prog("foo") != 0) { 25 1.1.2.2 tls printf("press return to continue"); 26 1.1.2.2 tls getchar(); 27 1.1.2.2 tls } 28 1.1.2.2 tls initscr(); 29 1.1.2.2 tls 30 1.1.2.2 tls #4: 31 1.1.2.2 tls 32 1.1.2.2 tls Manually fork and exec everything, dup2 fd's 1 and 2 33 1.1.2.2 tls onto sockets in the child, and paginate the output in 34 1.1.2.2 tls your curses app :-) 35 1.1.2.2 tls 36 1.1.2.2 tls We currently implement a special-case variant of #1 for untarring 37 1.1.2.2 tls release sets, since the GNU tar in 1.3 fails to report many 38 1.1.2.2 tls errors in its exit status. 39 1.1.2.2 tls 40 1.1.2.2 tls -- "browse" for a local directory to get the 41 1.1.2.2 tls distribution set from. Maybe just allowing the user to shell 42 1.1.2.2 tls out and look around is good enough (this needs more thought). 43 1.1.2.2 tls 44 1.1.2.2 tls -- check for already-mounted filesystems before install newfs. 45 1.1.2.2 tls Abort with message. 46 1.1.2.2 tls 47 1.1.2.2 tls -- check for already-mounted filesystems before upgrade fsck. 48 1.1.2.2 tls (ignore?) 49 1.1.2.2 tls 50 1.1.2.2 tls -- check for already-mounted filesystems before upgrade mount. 51 1.1.2.2 tls Continue, if device mount is where we wanted it? 52 1.1.2.2 tls 53 1.1.2.2 tls (Jonathan ran into the above 3 by upgrading from a live 54 1.1.2.2 tls system to a scratch disk. sysinst copied the live /etc/fstab 55 1.1.2.2 tls to the target. The upgrade failed because sysinst wanted 56 1.1.2.2 tls to mount the active system's /usr. Could happen when a 57 1.1.2.2 tls real upgrade aborts, even running from ramdisk root.) 58 1.1.2.2 tls 59 1.1.2.2 tls -- Handle ccd's and raid's during an upgrade. 60 1.1.2.2 tls 61 1.1.2.2 tls -- Use bootp or dhcp to get network info (hostname, domain name, 62 1.1.2.2 tls name servers, ...) 63 1.1.2.2 tls 64 1.1.2.2 tls -- Things like having config_network() 65 1.1.2.2 tls possibly use the information on the fixed disk instead of having 66 1.1.2.2 tls to ask everything. 67 1.1.2.2 tls 68 1.1.2.2 tls -- Build the disktab as a profile, not a true /etc/disktab so it 69 1.1.2.2 tls doesn't overwrite the real disktab. 70 1.1.2.2 tls 71 1.1.2.2 tls -- Have both ftp and floppy gets get the file, extract the file, 72 1.1.2.2 tls and then remove the file before going on to the next set to 73 1.1.2.2 tls save disk space. 74 1.1.2.2 tls 75 1.1.2.2 tls -- Set current time and date. 76 1.1.2.2 tls 77 1.1.2.2 tls -- Configure NTP servers, set NTP in rc.conf 78 1.1.2.2 tls 79 1.1.2.2 tls -- On i386 (and others) allow for storing localtime in the RTC. 80 1.1.2.2 tls Need to patch kernel variable with offset from UTC. Any 81 1.1.2.2 tls other kernel variables we might want to patch as well??? 82 1.1.2.2 tls 83 1.1.2.2 tls -- A little more clean-up of the run_prog suite so things work 84 1.1.2.2 tls nicely for all ports. 85 1.1.2.2 tls 86 1.1.2.2 tls -- fix "disklabel -r -w" vs. "disklabel -w": I still don't grok why 87 1.1.2.2 tls the -r, and the manpage says it will lose totally on sparcs. 88 1.1.2.2 tls Phil, was there some reason to bypass the incore label on i386? 89 1.1.2.2 tls Can we just do "disklabel -w" everywhere? 90 1.1.2.2 tls 91 1.1.2.2 tls -- Michael bumped the in-memory disklabel struct up to 16 entries. 92 1.1.2.2 tls Also add a runtime check in case that grows in future 93 1.1.2.2 tls (e.g., slices). Maybe bump to 32 entries just in case. 94 1.1.2.2 tls 95 1.1.2.2 tls -- Fix sanity-check message code. It currently gets over-written 96 1.1.2.2 tls immediately by the following message. 97 1.1.2.2 tls 98 1.1.2.2 tls -- check for disklabel edits changing active root partition. 99 1.1.2.2 tls reject. 100 1.1.2.2 tls 101 1.1.2.2 tls -- remove any possibly-stale ld.so.cache files from the target 102 1.1.2.2 tls /etc after unpacking sets. Maybe just don't copy ld.so.cache 103 1.1.2.2 tls from /etc.old? 104 1.1.2.2 tls 105 1.1.2.2 tls -- Full configuration of rc.conf? 106 1.1.2.2 tls 107 1.1.2.2 tls -- If we're doing a fresh install and there's already a label 108 1.1.2.2 tls on the disk, maybe use that instead of the compiled-in default 109 1.1.2.2 tls label? 110 1.1.2.2 tls 111 1.1.2.2 tls -- symlinks for /tmp (/tmp -> /var/tmp or some such) 112 1.1.2.2 tls 113 1.1.2.2 tls -- Do non-standard installs from arbitrary tar files (?) 114 1.1.2.2 tls 115 1.1.2.2 tls -- Install binary packages. (possibly a second program 116 1.1.2.2 tls run after installation.) 117 1.1.2.2 tls 118 1.1.2.2 tls -- Provide the user a menu to select each installation step on 119 1.1.2.2 tls its own. Currently there's no way to repeat steps or leave 120 1.1.2.2 tls them out. (See the Debian installer for a good example.) 121 1.1.2.2 tls 122 1.1.2.2 tls -- Allow the user to install binary snapshots available from releng. 123 1.1.2.2 tls This could be done in the following way: 124 1.1.2.2 tls * list the available snapshots in ftp.NetBSD.org 125 1.1.2.2 tls (eg.: ls /pub/NetBSD-daily/*/*/${ARCH} using ftp(1)). 126 1.1.2.2 tls * present the user with the possible selections (handle the 127 1.1.2.2 tls case of zero options). 128 1.1.2.2 tls * set the variables and install via FTP showing first the 129 1.1.2.2 tls FTP installation screen. 130
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