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FS#13568 - quickinst output is out of date

Attached to Project: Release Engineering
Opened by Ray (ataraxia) - Friday, 27 February 2009, 05:16 GMT
Last edited by Dieter Plaetinck (Dieter_be) - Wednesday, 11 March 2009, 22:17 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category archlinux-installer (deprecate
Status Closed
Assigned To Aaron Griffin (phrakture)
Gerhard Brauer (GerBra)
Dieter Plaetinck (Dieter_be)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 2009.02
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

The output printed by quickinst (both the original, and the port to AIF) still suggest to edit /etc/mkinitcpio.d/kernel26-fallback.conf, which doesn't exist any more.
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Closed by  Dieter Plaetinck (Dieter_be)
Wednesday, 11 March 2009, 22:17 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't fix
Additional comments about closing:  We will drop quickinst in favor of aif -p automatic
Comment by Dieter Plaetinck (Dieter_be) - Sunday, 01 March 2009, 17:18 GMT
TBH i never really understood the goals of quickinst.
It states it's meant for people who want to mkfs/mount their filesystems themselves, okay I understand that. But, as a "consequence" you can only install the base packages, your keyboard/time/.. settings don't go into /mnt/etc/rc.conf, you need to install the bootloader manually (which means having to mount some things yourself, chroot etc.

Note that the partitioning/filesystem creation in aif is more flexible (support for lvm/encryption and a better editor).
How is this any better then just running the installer and skipping the steps you want to do yourself?
Comment by Ray (ataraxia) - Monday, 02 March 2009, 23:18 GMT
I agree that quickinst isn't actually very quick. In fact, I don't use it either. I just figure that if it's there, it ought to be correct. Removing quickinst would be a perfectly good fix as far as I'm concerned.
Comment by Aaron Griffin (phrakture) - Monday, 02 March 2009, 23:22 GMT
regarding rc.conf, I imagine people quickinst-alling systems will edit that by hand afterwards, or have a config file they use (in the case of mass-installing numerous systems).

Still, using pacman itself (or slightly better, mkarchroot from devtools) to do this is pretty much all that is needed. When we moved the main Arch server, we did just run "pacman -r /mnt/ -S <list of packages>" and then re-copy our config files and home dirs over
Comment by Dieter Plaetinck (Dieter_be) - Wednesday, 11 March 2009, 22:16 GMT
We have decided to deprecate quickinst.
aif's automatic procedure will replace it.
See http://www.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-releng/2009-March/000443.html and  FS#11373 
I'll remove the quickinst "port" in aif also.

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