Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2011 23:06:16 +0200 From: Manolis Kiagias <manolis@FreeBSD.org> To: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> Cc: re@FreeBSD.org, cvs-doc@FreeBSD.org, emulation@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, nwhitehorn@FreeBSD.org, 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: <4EE3C9C8.9050709@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20111210214025.0000445d@unknown> References: <201112072132.pB7LW6Aa042461@repoman.freebsd.org> <20111210214025.0000445d@unknown>
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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.
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