From owner-cvs-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 10 22:29:41 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-doc@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E56B3106566B; Sat, 10 Dec 2011 22:29:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nwhitehorn@freebsd.org) Received: from agogare.doit.wisc.edu (agogare.doit.wisc.edu [144.92.197.211]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B30ED8FC08; Sat, 10 Dec 2011 22:29:41 +0000 (UTC) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 8BIT Content-type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Received: from avs-daemon.smtpauth2.wiscmail.wisc.edu by smtpauth2.wiscmail.wisc.edu (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u2-7.05 32bit (built Jul 30 2009)) id <0LW000J00BPGNL00@smtpauth2.wiscmail.wisc.edu>; Sat, 10 Dec 2011 15:29:40 -0600 (CST) Received: from comporellon.tachypleus.net ([unknown] [76.210.61.201]) by smtpauth2.wiscmail.wisc.edu (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u2-7.05 32bit (built Jul 30 2009)) with ESMTPSA id <0LW00079DBPEOY20@smtpauth2.wiscmail.wisc.edu>; Sat, 10 Dec 2011 15:29:39 -0600 (CST) Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2011 15:29:38 -0600 From: Nathan Whitehorn In-reply-to: <4EE3C9C8.9050709@FreeBSD.org> To: Manolis Kiagias Message-id: <4EE3CF42.6000703@freebsd.org> X-Spam-Report: AuthenticatedSender=yes, SenderIP=76.210.61.201 X-Spam-PmxInfo: Server=avs-11, Version=5.6.1.2065439, Antispam-Engine: 2.7.2.376379, Antispam-Data: 2011.12.10.212116, SenderIP=76.210.61.201 References: <201112072132.pB7LW6Aa042461@repoman.freebsd.org> <20111210214025.0000445d@unknown> <4EE3C9C8.9050709@FreeBSD.org> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111113 Thunderbird/8.0 Cc: re@FreeBSD.org, cvs-doc@FreeBSD.org, emulation@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, Alexander Leidinger , 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 X-BeenThere: cvs-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the doc and www trees List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2011 22:29:42 -0000 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 >> 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. -Nathan