Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2004 04:07:05 -0600 From: Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can the disklabel(8) link go now? Message-ID: <40C049C9.40605@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <15731.1086341737@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <15731.1086341737@critter.freebsd.dk>
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Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <40C0414F.4040108@freebsd.org>, Scott Long writes: > >>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. > > > I thought the idea was to make disklabel(8) print out a helpful > text pointing out the right tools for the current platform ? > > This is similar to what I suggested. Right now disklabel(8) provides no hint that it is deprecated other than blindly calling itself 'bsdlabel' on i386. I seem to have a real disklabel(8) on my sparc64 box, but that might be a leftover. Again, the historical importance of the 'disklabel' command is strong reason to treat it with special care. Scott
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