From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 27 12:08:01 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B962316A4CE; Tue, 27 Jul 2004 12:08:01 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de (krusty.dt.e-technik.Uni-Dortmund.DE [129.217.163.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A5EE43D55; Tue, 27 Jul 2004 12:08:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ma@dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de) Received: from m2a2.dyndns.org (pD951F45C.dip.t-dialin.net [217.81.244.92]) 54FC0368ED; Tue, 27 Jul 2004 14:07:57 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by merlin.emma.line.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66709C34B0; Tue, 27 Jul 2004 14:07:56 +0200 (CEST) Received: from merlin.emma.line.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (m2a2.dyndns.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 12902-04-5; Tue, 27 Jul 2004 14:07:55 +0200 (CEST) Received: by merlin.emma.line.org (Postfix, from userid 500) id 8A65BC349D; Tue, 27 Jul 2004 14:07:55 +0200 (CEST) To: Pawel Jakub Dawidek In-Reply-To: <20040727054351.GD57678@darkness.comp.waw.pl> (Pawel Jakub Dawidek's message of "Tue, 27 Jul 2004 07:43:51 +0200") References: <20040725165127.GX57678@darkness.comp.waw.pl> <20040727054351.GD57678@darkness.comp.waw.pl> From: Matthias Andree Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 14:07:55 +0200 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at m2a2.dyndns.org cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org cc: Matthias Andree Subject: print HEADSUP at installworld time? (was: HEADSUP gconcat(8) and gstripe(8) users!) X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 12:08:01 -0000 Pawel Jakub Dawidek writes: > +> I wonder if "make installworld" should display such warnings (or head > +> /usr/src/UPDATING FWIW) and give the user a chance to abort the > +> installation. > > First of all, I don't think there are many gstripe/gconcat users out there. > > Gstripe as well as gconcat was introduced after 5.2.1 - there was no > FreeBSD release with this code. > > That's why I think this is not necessary, this is -CURRENT and user can > always fix his /etc/fstab on boot. OK, not for gstripe/gconcat then, but I'm wondering if a mechanism to print such announcements would generally be useful. Changing subject. -- Matthias Andree Encrypted mail welcome: my GnuPG key ID is 0x052E7D95 (PGP/MIME preferred)