In 2024, users are more likely to have working HTTP than working FTP.
Present http://ftp.FreeBSD.org as the first option in the installer.
Keep ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org as the second option.
MFC after: 3 weeks
Throughout the bsdinstall script fd 3 is used by f_dprintf (set through
$TERMINAL_STDOUT_PASSTHRU). In several places in the bsdinstalls scripts,
we use fd 3 to juggle stdout when calling out to other tools, which can
cause the installer to fail with a "Bad file descriptor" error when
f_dprintf attempts to use it.
This commit replaces all constructs like this:
exec 3>&1
SOME_VARIABLE=$(some command 2>&1 1>&3)
exec 3>&-
With:
exec 5>&1
SOME_VARIABLE=$(some command 2>&1 1>&5)
exec 5>&-
PR: 273148
Reviewed by: corvink
Fixes: 1f7746d81f ("bsdinstall: stop messing with file descriptors")
MFC after: 1 week
The mirrors list is in sync with the Handbook / Mirrors section [1],
which was refreshed a few months ago. Mirrors removed were not
responding or had duplicated addresses (aliases) with another mirror.
1 - https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/mirrors/
Reviewed by: philip (clusteradm)
Approved by: philip
MFC after: 1 week
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D38014
Prune dead mirrors from the list of mirrors in bsdconfig and bsdinstall.
All these return NXDOMAIN when trying to resolve them.
Reviewed by: emaste
Approved by: emaste
MFC after: 3 days
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D26535
the snapshots directory, not releases.
Reported by: David Marec david.marec _at_ davenulle _dot_ org
Approved by: re (rgrimes)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
directory on the FTP mirrors to fetch distributions, since
these are always pushed to releases/ during the release cycle.
MFC after: 3 days
X-MFC-To: stable/9, releng/9.2
being run to set BSDINSTALL_DISTSITE accordingly. This change allows
non-RELEASE branches to use the FTP snapshots directory for bootonly.iso
installations.
Approved by: simon
This follows what the output of make targets looks like, and reduces the
number of directories needed on the FTP server, since we now have only one
architecture with multiple machine types (i386, which has i386 and pc98),
but 3 machines with 9 architectures between them (powerpc, mips, and arm).
Requested by: kensmith, bz
Approved by: re(kensmith)
(e.g. powerpc64), this looks in a slightly different default path than now,
specifying both $MACHINE and $MACHINE_ARCH:
MIRROR/pub/FreeBSD/releases/`uname -p`/`uname -m`/`uname -r`
How to handle TBEMD properly probably merits some more discussion, but,
since no such 9.0-CURRENT distfiles exist at the moment, all existing
mirrors presently fail anyway.
