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Date:      Wed, 07 Dec 2011 10:38:40 -0800
From:      Kevin Baxter <voidchicken@gmail.com>
To:        Manolis Kiagias <sonic2000gr@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-doc@freebsd.org, bug-followup@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: docs/163102: linprocfs mounted in wrong location in Handbook
Message-ID:  <4EDFB2B0.8040901@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4EDFAFCD.7050508@gmail.com>
References:  <201112071720.pB7HKA7W019067@freefall.freebsd.org> <4EDFAFCD.7050508@gmail.com>

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On 12/07/2011 10:26, Manolis Kiagias wrote:
> On 7/12/2011 7:20 ìì, Patrick Lamaiziere wrote:
>> The following reply was made to PR docs/163102; it has been noted by 
>> GNATS.
>>
>> From: Patrick Lamaiziere<patfbsd@davenulle.org>
>> To: bug-followup@freebsd.org<bug-followup@freebsd.org>
>> Cc: Kevin Baxter<voidchicken@gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: docs/163102: linprocfs mounted in wrong location in 
>> Handbook
>> Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2011 18:02:34 +0100
>>
>>   Le Wed, 7 Dec 2011 15:30:15 GMT,
>>   Kevin Baxter<voidchicken@gmail.com>  a écrit :
>>
>> >   $ ls /usr/compat
>> >   ls: /usr/compat: No such file or directory
>> >   $ ls -ld /compat
>> >   drwxr-xr-x   3 root  wheel        3 Jan 17  2010 compat
>> >
>> >   It isn't a symlink on my system. At what point in installation is it
>> >   supposed to have been created? I don't see a mention of that
>> >  anywhere in the Handbook. Chapter 11.2 even refers to /compat/linux
>> >  instead of /usr/compat/linux.
>>
>>   On 9.0 bsdinstall does not create the /compat symlink. Or
>>   even /compat, it is created when you install the linux base.
>>   You have to move /compat to /usr/compat and create the link by hand.
>
> I've checked on 9.0-RC2 and the link is there, but my installs were 
> upgraded from 8.2-RELEASE, so you may have a point there. I'll check 
> on a clean 9.0-RC3 install shortly and report findings.
>
>>
>>   This is a bug in bsdinstall imho. Sysintall did it. I don't know if
>>   this is fixed (I've installed with a 9.0 beta usb key)
>>
>>   Regards.
>
> If it happens that 9.0 installs into /compat, we should either add 
> this to the documentation or file a PR so that either the linux_base 
> package or bsdinstall creates the link.
> But from the current PR it seems the OP was using 8.2-RELEASE which 
> should not exhibit this.

I'm using a ZFS root, so I used the wiki's RootOnZFS page to install 
(which doesn't use sysinstall, and doesn't mention /compat).

So is this a case of a non-standard installation being unsupported? 
Should the wiki be changed to include that symlink? Or should one of the 
install scripts be changed to make the symlink?


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