Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 21:34:56 -0800 From: Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com> To: Thomas Mueller <mueller6724@bellsouth.net>, "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Stable" <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>, Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org> Subject: Re: BIND segway -> python -> first-class ports Message-ID: <CAN6yY1tSqbrkt5bkjhDW6npT4PAXmMck0Xco%2BERwBE=wkkBDBQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20131210224915.GA55638@funkthat.com> References: <20131210023615.GR55638@funkthat.com> <52A68141.6010003@mu.org> <622122.74675.bm@smtp120.sbc.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> <20131210224915.GA55638@funkthat.com>
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On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 2:49 PM, John-Mark Gurney <jmg@funkthat.com> wrote: > Thomas Mueller wrote this message on Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 12:05 +0000: > > > gpart info is already in XML from sysctl kern.geom.confxml... > > > > > And disklabel has been retired and replaced by gpart... > > > > -- John-Mark Gurney > > > > > XML doesn't work for everyone, and as far as disklabel, wasn't aware > > > it was toast in HEAD, it's still around in 9.2 and we've been doing > > > most of our development there so oops! > > > > -- Alfred > > > > I just looked in FreeBSD-current, and it appears disklabel, hard-linked > with bsdlabel, is alive and well. > > > > Man page does not show deprecated. > > Maybe retired was too strong of a word... But it is recommended you use > gpart, since bsdlabel can't handled writing when other partitions are > open... > > -- > John-Mark Gurney Voice: +1 415 225 5579 > > While bsdlabel lives, it is very painful to use once you learn gpart. A parseable output from gpart would be wonderful. Another would be netstat. FWIW, the fact that JunOS can output most everything in XML is a great thing that I wish every router and OS did! (Not the XML part, but a format suitable or easy parsing. JSON would probably be even better.) -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer E-mail: rkoberman@gmail.com
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