Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 18:11:46 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> Cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/sunlabel Makefile Message-ID: <20030417151146.GC43212@sunbay.com> In-Reply-To: <4939.1050581064@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <20030417113315.GG16563@locore.ca> <4939.1050581064@critter.freebsd.dk>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Thu, Apr 17, 2003 at 02:04:24PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <20030417113315.GG16563@locore.ca>, Jake Burkholder writes: > > >Please do not re-enable disklabel on sparc64 unless you call it something > >else. I'm saying this with my port master hat on. > > I agree with Jake. > So do I. :-) > And putting on whatever flimsy hat I have with a rusty old badge > reading "generally mucking about in the area of disks": > > 1. We repocopy disklabel(8) to bsdlabel(8) and install it under that > name on all architectures. > > 2. We install a symlink from disklabel to bsdlabel on the following > architectures throughout the 5.x branch's lifetime. > i386 > pc98 > alpha > > 3. On all other platforms, and at all other times, we install a small > shell script which prints some helpful information relevant to the > platform it is run on. > > 4. Should we some day get a unified disk-partitioning tool, whoever > writes it gets to choose the name they want it to bear, including > "disklabel" should it be worthy of such a general name. > 5. Fix documentation as necessary. Yes please. And please change the link type for disklabel -> sunlabel to "symlink" too. P.S. What are you plans regarding <sys/disklabel.h> then? Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA, ru@sunbay.com Sunbay Software AG, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.512.251 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+nsQxUkv4P6juNwoRAsj+AJ4tIvrFG/YhkmOKBwJAfIzTU4shoQCcCHyz gIV90QSWc5+WzlyfRUrjfDo= =TcVa -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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