Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2004 03:30:55 -0600 From: Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org> To: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can the disklabel(8) link go now? Message-ID: <40C0414F.4040108@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20040604092313.GA12314@ip.net.ua> References: <20040604092313.GA12314@ip.net.ua>
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My vote is 'not right now'. disklabel is a very fundamental command
to BSD, so if you intend to remove it then I suggest that you do the
following:
1. Mark it as 'deprecated' everywhere. All documentation, manual
pages, etc. If you can make it so that an invocation of 'disklabel'
prints out a deprecation warning, that would be good also.
2. After 5-STABLE branches, remove it from HEAD.
3. Leave it in 5-STABLE until EOL.
Scott
Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> Gang,
>
> I'd like to remove the old compatibility link from bsdlabel(8)
> to disklabel(8). I think the dust has settled enough to allow
> this to be done now (and before 5.3-RELEASE):
>
> %%%
> Index: Makefile
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sbin/bsdlabel/Makefile,v
> retrieving revision 1.19
> diff -u -r1.19 Makefile
> --- Makefile 11 Jan 2004 09:11:10 -0000 1.19
> +++ Makefile 4 Jun 2004 09:20:31 -0000
> @@ -8,17 +8,16 @@
> #MAN= bsdlabel.5
> MAN+= bsdlabel.8
>
> -.if ${MACHINE_ARCH} == "i386" || ${MACHINE_ARCH} == "alpha" || \
> - ${MACHINE_ARCH} == "amd64"
> -LINKS= ${BINDIR}/bsdlabel ${BINDIR}/disklabel
> -MLINKS= bsdlabel.8 disklabel.8
> -.endif
> -
> DPADD= ${LIBGEOM}
> LDADD= -lgeom
>
> .include <bsd.prog.mk>
>
> +afterinstall:
> +.if exists(${DESTDIR}${BINDIR}/disklabel)
> + rm -f ${DESTDIR}${BINDIR}/disklabel
> +.endif
> +
> test: ${PROG}
> sh ${.CURDIR}/runtest.sh
>
> %%%
>
> What do you think?
>
>
> Cheers,
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