29.07.2012, 00:29, "Matthias Petermann" <matth...@d2ux.net>:
> Hi Darren,
>
> thanks for diving into the issue. I looked through the mentioned places in 
> the bsdinstall code and understand it now.
>
> On Sat, 28 Jul 2012 17:24:48 +0400
> Darren Baginski <kick...@yandex.com> wrote:
>
>>  I thing release/arch selection has to be a part of the installer, either 
>> directly or via environment variables.
>
> Yes, I think so too. I guess there usually no FTP directories created for 
> patch level releases like 9.0-RELEASE-p3? Your proposal to introduce a new 
> environment variable like TARGET makes sense. This could work like an 
> override - when it is not set it can fall back to the default (using uname -r 
> which makes sense for the installation media).
>
> Should I file a PR or did you already?

No, feel free to open if you feel it needed.
I would say it's more a feature request, but without it, bsdinstall not
usable on non release environments.

>
> Thanks,
> Matthias
>
> --
> Matthias Petermann <matth...@d2ux.net>
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