Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 18:28:43 -0800 From: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> To: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> Cc: doc-committers@FreeBSD.org, re@FreeBSD.org, cvs-doc@FreeBSD.org, emulation@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net>, Manolis Kiagias <manolis@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: <4EE6B85B.9050701@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <4EE3CF42.6000703@freebsd.org> References: <201112072132.pB7LW6Aa042461@repoman.freebsd.org> <20111210214025.0000445d@unknown> <4EE3C9C8.9050709@FreeBSD.org> <4EE3CF42.6000703@freebsd.org>
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On 12/10/2011 13:29, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: > 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. I don't understand why the linux_base ports are not sorting this out on their own. Why should this be a function of the installer? Doug -- [^L] Breadth of IT experience, and depth of knowledge in the DNS. Yours for the right price. :) http://SupersetSolutions.com/
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