Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2011 15:29:38 -0600 From: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> To: Manolis Kiagias <manolis@FreeBSD.org> Cc: re@FreeBSD.org, cvs-doc@FreeBSD.org, emulation@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net>, doc-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/desktop chapter.sgml doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/linuxemu chapter.sgml Message-ID: <4EE3CF42.6000703@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <4EE3C9C8.9050709@FreeBSD.org> References: <201112072132.pB7LW6Aa042461@repoman.freebsd.org> <20111210214025.0000445d@unknown> <4EE3C9C8.9050709@FreeBSD.org>
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On 12/10/11 15:06, Manolis Kiagias wrote: > On 10/12/2011 10:40 μμ, Alexander Leidinger wrote: >> On Wed, 7 Dec 2011 21:32:06 +0000 (UTC) Manolis Kiagias >> <manolis@FreeBSD.org> wrote: >> >> CCing re@, emulation@ and nwhitehorn@ due to a possible impact in the >> upcomming release. >> >>> Modified files: >>> en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/desktop chapter.sgml >>> en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/linuxemu chapter.sgml >>> Log: >>> Use /compat/linux/proc instead of /usr/compat/linux/proc as the >>> mount point of linproc in the examples, since: >>> >>> - linux_base always installs to /compat and creates it as a >>> directory if it does not exist as a symlink >>> - Custom installations (not done by sysinstall(8)) may not >>> have /compat at all >>> - The linuxemu chapter uses /compat anyway (except a single >>> example, fixed) >>> - The new bsdinstall(8) does not create /compat either as directory >>> or symlink >> Looks like a bug in bsdinstall (and linux_base) to me. What you write >> here means that a new release with bsdinstall instead of sysinstall may >> cause problems where /compat is in a small partition and /usr in a big >> partition (even if it creates a big one by default, an user may change >> this). I suggest to fix bsdinstall before the release of 9.0. It also >> changes what is expected by long-term users. > > Yes, this was discussed in the PR (see > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-doc/2011-December/019270.html > ). I think the best and safer way would be for bsdinstall to create > the link if possible. This is very easy to do, and the correct place is in /usr/src/usr.sbin/bsdinstall/scripts/config. I don't have a good sense of what the correct logic is, however, and so would appreciate either guidance or patches from emulation-types. -Nathan
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