From owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 31 20:05:22 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B132316A4D1 for ; Sat, 31 Jan 2004 20:05:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail4.speakeasy.net (mail4.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.204]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB9F243D46 for ; Sat, 31 Jan 2004 20:05:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jmg@hydrogen.funkthat.com) Received: (qmail 20802 invoked from network); 1 Feb 2004 04:05:11 -0000 Received: from dsl017-045-168.spk4.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO hydrogen.funkthat.com) ([69.17.45.168]) (envelope-sender ) by mail4.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 1 Feb 2004 04:05:11 -0000 Received: from hydrogen.funkthat.com (dilcle@localhost.funkthat.com [127.0.0.1])i1145Bj2077863; Sat, 31 Jan 2004 20:05:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jmg@hydrogen.funkthat.com) Received: (from jmg@localhost) by hydrogen.funkthat.com (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id i1145AhB077862; Sat, 31 Jan 2004 20:05:10 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2004 20:05:10 -0800 From: John-Mark Gurney To: Ruslan Ermilov Message-ID: <20040201040510.GA74366@funkthat.com> References: <200401310739.i0V7djHb026220@repoman.freebsd.org> <20040131083222.GA46577@FreeBSD.org.ua> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040131083222.GA46577@FreeBSD.org.ua> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE i386 X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 EC EF F8 AE ED A7 31 96 7A 22 B3 D8 56 36 F4 X-Files: The truth is out there X-URL: http://resnet.uoregon.edu/~gurney_j/ X-Resume: http://resnet.uoregon.edu/~gurney_j/resume.html cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org cc: src-committers@FreeBSD.org cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org cc: "David E. O'Brien" Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/sunlabel Makefile X-BeenThere: cvs-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: John-Mark Gurney List-Id: CVS commit messages for the entire tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 01 Feb 2004 04:05:22 -0000 Ruslan Ermilov wrote this message on Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 10:32 +0200: > What this means is that I did a technical review of this change, > but my personal opinion about this is that the opposite should > have been done (i.e., the compatibility link in sbin/bsdlabel > should have been removed instead). But since the majority of > those discussing this change seemed to like having it (both here > and there), I wasn't strongly objecting to it anymore. Just for > the record... ;) How about if we replaced disklabel w/ a simple script that described why disklabel disappeared? I am somewhat for keeping the link since it reduces support questions.. but at the same time, I've had people ask the question: "Why can't my disklabel'd disk on my sparc64 box not get seen/understood by my x86 box? I used the same program to label them, yet the partitions aren't appearing on x86." If we broke disklabel w/ an explination of what the "real" labels are for each arch, I think that this would fix both the short term support cost, and the long term understanding and adding of additional platforms (for when ppc becomes tier-1)... Anyways, if someone is smart enough to be using disklabel manually instead of sysinstall, they should be able to understand the differences between platforms and to use the proper program... It wouldn't be hard to have the script detect the local platform and say, use this program instead. comments? -- John-Mark Gurney Voice: +1 415 225 5579 "All that I will do, has been done, All that I have, has not."