Unfortunately, I don’t have a web archive of this to point at, but Chris Pressey just posted a patch to the long-dormant BSD Installer mailing list that updates the installer to work with Lua 5.1.2. It previously only worked with 5.0.x versions. (Thanks, Chris Buechler, for the link!)
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