Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 14:49:15 -0800 From: John-Mark Gurney <jmg@funkthat.com> To: Thomas Mueller <mueller6724@bellsouth.net> Cc: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BIND segway -> python -> first-class ports Message-ID: <20131210224915.GA55638@funkthat.com> In-Reply-To: <622122.74675.bm@smtp120.sbc.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> References: <20131210023615.GR55638@funkthat.com> <52A68141.6010003@mu.org> <622122.74675.bm@smtp120.sbc.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>
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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...
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