Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2011 12:41:06 -0500 From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Manolis Kiagias <sonic2000gr@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org, Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: docs/163102: linprocfs mounted in wrong location in Handbook Message-ID: <4EE0F6B2.8090005@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <201112071830.pB7IUEHQ082055@freefall.freebsd.org> References: <201112071830.pB7IUEHQ082055@freefall.freebsd.org>
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On 12/7/11 1:30 PM, Manolis Kiagias wrote:
> The following reply was made to PR docs/163102; it has been noted by GNATS.
>
> From: Manolis Kiagias<sonic2000gr@gmail.com>
> To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org, bug-followup@FreeBSD.org
> Cc: VoidChicken@gmail.com
> Subject: Re: docs/163102: linprocfs mounted in wrong location in Handbook
> Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2011 20:26:21 +0200
>
> 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.
sysinstall did this in its magic installFixupBase() routine as bogon #4.
I've no idea if bsdinstall replicates all the same post-install
fixups. Hmm, my fresh 9.0 system has no /compat or /usr/compat, so
this seems to be missing. I think the package should keep installing
to /compat, but I don't really think the package should set the policy
of symlinking /compat to /usr/compat. That should be in the install if
/compat doesn't already exist.
FWIW, for my own home-rolled installer on 8 I use the following shell
function to simulate installFixupBase() (note, the installed system is
mounted at /mnt, and this runs from the "outside" not in a chroot into
/mnt):
# Fixups from installFixupBase() in sysinstall's install.c
install_fixups()
{
chmod 0755 /mnt/etc
mkdir -p /mnt/var/db
touch /mnt/var/db/mountdtab
chmod 0644 /mnt/var/db/mountdtab
mkdir /mnt/usr/compat
ln -s usr/compat /mnt/compat
chroot /mnt /bin/sh -c newaliases
mtree -deU -f /mnt/etc/mtree/BSD.root.dist -p /mnt
mtree -deU -f /mnt/etc/mtree/BSD.var.dist -p /mnt/var
mtree -deU -f /mnt/etc/mtree/BSD.usr.dist -p /mnt/usr
}
--
John Baldwin
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