Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2017 00:13:33 +0000 (UTC) From: Brooks Davis <brooks@FreeBSD.org> To: src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-stable@freebsd.org, svn-src-stable-11@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r316798 - stable/11/usr.sbin/makefs Message-ID: <201704140013.v3E0DX1J015550@repo.freebsd.org>
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Author: brooks Date: Fri Apr 14 00:13:33 2017 New Revision: 316798 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/316798 Log: MFC r316593: Point out that -F probably does not do what the user expects. Users attempting to create images from mtree METALOG files created by installworld often use -F when they should be passing the METALOG file in place of a directory. This is often produces difficult to debug error reports. Reviewed by: emaste Sponsored by: DARPA, AFRL Modified: stable/11/usr.sbin/makefs/makefs.8 Directory Properties: stable/11/ (props changed) Modified: stable/11/usr.sbin/makefs/makefs.8 ============================================================================== --- stable/11/usr.sbin/makefs/makefs.8 Thu Apr 13 23:22:18 2017 (r316797) +++ stable/11/usr.sbin/makefs/makefs.8 Fri Apr 14 00:13:33 2017 (r316798) @@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ .\" .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd June 14, 2016 +.Dd April 6, 2017 .Dt MAKEFS 8 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -116,6 +116,12 @@ set in .Ar debug-mask . XXX: document these .It Fl F Ar mtree-specfile +.Em This is almost certainly not the option you are looking for. +To create an image from a list of files in an mtree format manifest, +specify it as the last argument on the commandline, not as a the +argument to +.Fl F . +.Pp Use .Ar mtree-specfile as an
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