bsdinstall: do pkgbase installations with the "script" command

2026-05-12T14:13:16Z

"bsdinstall script" will now do a pkgbase installation by default. The system components to install can be specified in the COMPONENTS variable, and have the same names as those used in the interactive installer. bsdinstall will still do a legacy distset installation if DISTRIBUTIONS is defined in the installerconfig file. MFC: 1 week PR: 290375 Sponsored by: ConnectWise Reviewed by: ziaee, ivy, jduran Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D56717

bsdinstall: Fix typos

2025-10-18T17:13:16Z

Reviewed by: emaste MFC after: 2 days Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D53170

bsdinstall: Fix installation script splitting

2024-01-09T18:14:17Z

This allows writing setup scripts that contain lines starting with "#!", e.g., a shebang when creating a shell script using cat: #!/bin/sh echo "Populate rc.local" cat >/etc/rc.local<

bsdinstall: avoid conflicts with fd 3

2023-09-21T06:41:48Z

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: 1f7746d81f53447ac15cc99395bb714d4dd0a4da ("bsdinstall: stop messing with file descriptors") MFC after: 1 week

Remove $FreeBSD$: one-line sh pattern

2023-08-16T17:55:03Z

Remove /^\s*#[#!]?\s*\$FreeBSD\$.*$\n/

bsdinstall/script: umount before zpool export

2022-05-03T14:02:39Z

When running zpool export first, boot/efi and dev is still mounted so zpool export fails. By running bsdinstall umount first the pool can be cleanly exported. Reviewed by: emaste Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D35114 Sponsored by: Beckhoff Automation GmbH & Co. KG MFC After: 3 days

bsdinstall: stop messing with file descriptors

2022-05-03T14:02:27Z

Throughout the bsdinstall script fd 3 is used by f_dprintf (set through $TERMINAL_STDOUT_PASSTHRU). By closing file descriptor 3 here, the final f_dprintf "Installation Completed ... does not work anymore. By putting the code into a subshell, file descriptors can be edited without interference with the calling script. Reviewed by: emaste Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D35113 Sponsored by: Beckhoff Automation GmbH & Co. KG MFC after: 3 days

bsdinstall: Avoid double-mounting /dev

2021-06-23T21:24:53Z

After 34766aa8cb514472c571f8b0e90e833833acef51 we are mounting and unmounting devfs elsewhere already. Reviewed by: nwhitehorn MFC after: 1 week Sponsored by: iXsystems, Inc. Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D30877

bsdinstall: Fix typo (Instalation -> Installation).

2021-06-03T04:44:11Z

Fix scripted installation from media without local distfiles.

2021-05-28T14:01:27Z

The bsdinstall script target did not have the infrastructure to fetch distfiles from a remote server the way the interactive installer does on e.g. bootonly media. Solve this by factoring out the parts of the installer that deal with fetching missing distributions into a new install stage called 'fetchmissingdists', which is called by both the interactive and scripted installer frontends. In the course of these changes, cleaned up a few other issues with the fetching of missing distribution files and added a warning if fetching the MANIFEST file, which is used to verify the integrity of the distribution files. We should at some point add cryptographic signatures to MANIFEST so that it can be fetched safely if not present on the install media (which it is for bootonly media). Initial patch by: Vinícius Zavam PR: 255659, 250928 Reviewed by: dteske MFC after: 4 weeks Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D27121

src/usr.sbin/bsdinstall/scripts/script, branch main