On Sun, 2 Aug 2009, Marc Fonvieille wrote: > On Sun, Aug 02, 2009 at 01:12:09PM +0100, Bruce Cran wrote: >> I downloaded an 8-CURRENT powerpc snapshot from >> http://pub.allbsd.org/FreeBSD-snapshots/powerpc/8.0-HEAD-20090731-JPSNAP/cdrom/ >> yesterday and tried to install it. The installation of the English >> documentation set failed saying it couldn't find "packages/INDEX" on the >> CD. The doc directory does exist so it seems it should be possible to >> install it. Is this a bug in sysinstall? > > Your ISO comes without any packages? I mean you cannot install any packages > during installation time with sysinstall? If it's the case, it's normal you > got this error: docs are now provided via packages so if packages/INDEXis > not available it'll fail. > > You can install docs after installation time with: > > pkg_add -rv en-freebsd-doc To date, betas have been shipped without packages, but our installer tends to handle that less than gracefully (as I recall, it just pops up error dialogs). Possibly, sysinstall should pop up a message early on saying that there are no packages and then not offer the option to do anything with them. :-) Robert N M Watson Computer Laboratory University of CambridgeReceived on Sun Aug 02 2009 - 15:15:12 UTC
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