Improve portion of the dialog(1) API in dialog.subr responsible for
retrieving stored data (for the --menu, --calendar, --timebox, --checklist,
and --radiolist widgets).

When we (Ron McDowell and I)

Improve portion of the dialog(1) API in dialog.subr responsible for
retrieving stored data (for the --menu, --calendar, --timebox, --checklist,
and --radiolist widgets).

When we (Ron McDowell and I) developed the first version of bsdconfig, it
used temporary files to store responses from dialog(1). That hasn't been
true for some very long time, so the need to always store the return status
of dialog(1) and then call some function to clean-up is long-deprecated. The
function that used to do the clean-up was f_dialog_menutag().

We really don't need f_dialog_menutag() for its originally designed purpose,
as all dialog invocations (even when in a sub-shell) do not use temporary
files anymore.

However, we do need to keep f_dialog_menutag() around because it still fills
the need of being able to abstract the procedure for fetching stored data
provided by functions that display the aforementioned widgets.

In re-designing f_dialog_menutag(), four important changes are made:

1. Rename f_dialog_menutag() to f_dialog_menutag_fetch()
2. Introduce the new first-argument of $var_to_set to reduce number of forks
3. Create a corresponding f_dialog_menutag_store() to abstract the storage
4. Offload the sanitization to a new function, f_dialog_data_sanitize()

NOTE: That last one is important. Not all functions need to store their data
for later fetching, meanwhile every invocation of dialog should be sanitized
(as we learned early-on in the i18n-effort -- underlying libraries will spit
warnings to stderr for bad values of $LANG and since dialog outputs its
responses to stderr, we need to sanitize every response of these warnings).

These changes greatly improve readbaility and also improve performance by
reducing unnecessary forking.

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Centralize standard getopts arguments, both for convenience and to correct
a bug in which certain combinations of arguments produced unexpected results
such as `-dX' (now properly produces debugging

Centralize standard getopts arguments, both for convenience and to correct
a bug in which certain combinations of arguments produced unexpected results
such as `-dX' (now properly produces debugging and X11), `-XS' (now properly
produces X11 in secure mode), `-df-' (enables debugging when reading a
script from standard-input, etc. Multi-word variations such as `-d -X',
`-X -S', `-d -f-', `-d -f -', etc. also work as expected. Also tested were
variations in argument order, which are now working as expected.

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Fix two bugs when setting up a plip interface. First, dhcp status was not
being properly cleared each iteration of the loop. Second, values weren't
properly quoted when sent to the editor function.

UI improvements. First, implement --default-item whenever and wherever
possible to save keystrokes. Second, overhaul startup/rcdelete for much
improved performance. Last, but not least, kill-off usea

UI improvements. First, implement --default-item whenever and wherever
possible to save keystrokes. Second, overhaul startup/rcdelete for much
improved performance. Last, but not least, kill-off useage of --clear
and implement --keep-tite in harmony to minimize jarring transitions.
Also, fix local variable names where necessary while we're here with
other minor comment-enhancements/typo-corrections.

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Add new flags `-d' (sets debug=1) and `-D file' (sets debugFile) and
improve debugging initialization. Also fixup USAGE statements while we're
here. Also, change initialization of main program to _no

Add new flags `-d' (sets debug=1) and `-D file' (sets debugFile) and
improve debugging initialization. Also fixup USAGE statements while we're
here. Also, change initialization of main program to _not_ change working
directory, allowing the debugFile to be relative without confusion.

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sync from head

IFC @247348.

Import media selection/preparation framework (sysinstall inspired). Makes
accessing files from various types of media nice and abstracted away from
the wet-work involved in preparing, validating, and

Import media selection/preparation framework (sysinstall inspired). Makes
accessing files from various types of media nice and abstracted away from
the wet-work involved in preparing, validating, and initializing those
types of media. This will be used for the package management system module
and other modules that need access to files and want to allow the user to
decide where those files come from (either in a scripted fashion, prompted
fashion, or any combination thereof).

Heavily inspired by sysinstall and even uses the same reserved words so
that scripts are portable. Coded over months, tested continuously through-
out, and reviewed several times.

Some notes about the changes:
- Move network-setting acquisition/validation routines to media/tcpip.subr
- The options screen from sysinstall has been converted to a dialog menu
- The "UFS" media choice is renamed to "Directory" to reflect how sysinstall
treats the choice and a new [true] "UFS" media choice has been added that
acts on real UFS partitions (such as external disks with disklabels).
- Many more help files have been resurrected from sysinstall (I noticed that
some of the content seems a bit dated; I gave them a once-over but they
could really use an update).
- A total of 10 media choices are presented (via mediaGetType) including:
CD/DVD, FTP, FTP Passive, HTTP Proxy, Directory, NFS, DOS, UFS, Floppy, USB
- Novel struct/device management layer for managing the issue of passing
more information than can comfortably fit in an argument list.

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Sync with HEAD.

IFC @ r244983.

Add more debugging to help with diagnosis of program-flow when needed.

Remove unnecessary duplicate initialization of the dialog(1) API (automatically
bootstrapped on-include unless DIALOG_SELF_INITIALIZE is set to NO before-hand)

MFC

MFC @ r241285

IFC @ r243164

Replicate a feature from sysinstall documented in
stable/9/usr.sbin/sysinstall/help/shortcuts.hlp (reproduced below):

If /usr/sbin/sysinstall is linked to another filename, say
`/usr/local/bin/confi

Replicate a feature from sysinstall documented in
stable/9/usr.sbin/sysinstall/help/shortcuts.hlp (reproduced below):

If /usr/sbin/sysinstall is linked to another filename, say
`/usr/local/bin/configPackages', then the basename will be used
as an implicit command name.

To get a list of modules you can link to, see `bsdconfig -h' output.

Approved by: adrian (co-mentor) (implicit)

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IFC @ r242684

Sync from head

Reverse SVN r240770 -- jilles@ made a suggestion that allowed us to redesign
our embedded rescue environment to support /dev/null making r240770 obsolete.

Reviewed by: jilles, adrian (co-mentor)
App

Reverse SVN r240770 -- jilles@ made a suggestion that allowed us to redesign
our embedded rescue environment to support /dev/null making r240770 obsolete.

Reviewed by: jilles, adrian (co-mentor)
Approved by: jilles, adrian (co-mentor)

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Replace redirections to /dev/null with "close file-descriptor" syntax (>&-).

Reviewed by: adrian (co-mentor)
Approved by: adrian (co-mentor)

Move major includes into /usr/share/bsdconfig for easy external access.

Reviewed by: adrian (co-mentor)
Approved by: adrian (co-mentor)

Merge head r236710 through r238467.

Import bsdconfig(8) as a replacement for the post-install abilities of
deprecated sysinstall(8). NOTE: WITH_BSDCONFIG is currently required.

Submitted by: Devin Teske (dteske), Ron McDowell <rcm@fuz

Import bsdconfig(8) as a replacement for the post-install abilities of
deprecated sysinstall(8). NOTE: WITH_BSDCONFIG is currently required.

Submitted by: Devin Teske (dteske), Ron McDowell <rcm@fuzzwad.org>
Reviewed by: Ron McDowell <rcm@fuzzwad.org>
Approved by: Ed Maste (emaste)

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