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Date:      Thu, 10 May 2018 00:13:12 +0200
From:      Mariusz Zaborski <oshogbo@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org>
Cc:        src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r333438 - head/sbin/geom/class/eli
Message-ID:  <20180509221312.GA27592@x-wing>
In-Reply-To: <1525899943.35372.42.camel@freebsd.org>
References:  <201805092051.w49KpGZm079239@repo.freebsd.org> <1525899943.35372.42.camel@freebsd.org>

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On Wed, May 09, 2018 at 03:05:43PM -0600, Ian Lepore wrote:
> On Wed, 2018-05-09 at 20:51 +0000, Mariusz Zaborski wrote:
> > Author: oshogbo
> > Date: Wed May=A0=A09 20:51:16 2018
> > New Revision: 333438
> > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/333438
> >=20
> > Log:
> > =A0 Change option dry-run from 'n' to 'C' in geli attach command.
> > =A0=A0
> > =A0 'n' is used in other commands to define the key index.
> > =A0 We should be consistent with that.
> > =A0 'C' option is used by patch(1) to perform dryrun so lets use that.
>=20
> This seems like a dangerous change. Today I am begining to write new
> product image creation scripts that involve geli, and I'm going to do
> so under the assumption that the commands and arguments are not going
> to suddenly change their meaning on some future OS update.
>=20
> Hopefully the new meaning of -n implies an argument which is validated
> as being either 0 or 1, so that any existing scripts that contain -n to
> mean "dry run" will very likely fail the validation and not silently
> misbehave.
>=20
> At the very least, it seems like an entry in UPDATING is required.
Oliver, Ian - thank you for noticing this.
I wasn't sure if we need to add UPDATING or release notes because I added '=
n'
option couple weeks ago and wasn't integrated to any stable/release branch.
Considering that should we still update UPDATING?

Thanks,
--=20
Mariusz Zaborski
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