desktop-installer does not work with zfs root filesystem

[tbalbers]

Hiya, When trying to use desktop-install on a newly installed FreeBSD 12.2, I get an error if /usr/ports are added during install and I chose to use the 2021Q1 ports. The script tries to mv /usr/ports /usr/ports.0 bu fails and exits with the messages: Operation not supported. This is because /usr/ports is a separate ZFS filesystem, so: 'zfs destroy zroot/usr/ports' removes the /usr/ports directory and running desktop-installer again the just downloads the release of /usr/ports that it wants.

Maybe there should be some kind of automagic resolution to this or at least an information about what to do.

[outpaddling]

Thanks for the bug report! This is actually not a desktop-installer bug. The problem is in sysutils/auto-admin, script auto-check-ports-branch. An update will be committed to -latest shortly. You can test the fix immediately regardless of whether you use quarterly or latest by installing from my work-in-progress collection:

auto-freebsd-wip-checkout git
wip-reinstall-port auto-admin
wip-reinstall-port desktop-installer