Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2015 22:24:24 -0800 From: NGie Cooper <yaneurabeya@gmail.com> To: Bryan Drewery <bdrewery@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org>, Garrett Cooper <ngie@FreeBSD.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org, gjb@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r290840 - head/etc Message-ID: <59366F9C-0F8C-4B19-A197-32BC8B86DFA4@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <565CB930.2060504@FreeBSD.org> References: <201511150304.tAF34dD2062713@repo.freebsd.org> <1447597638.1254.16.camel@freebsd.org> <565CB930.2060504@FreeBSD.org>
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> On Nov 30, 2015, at 13:01, Bryan Drewery <bdrewery@FreeBSD.org> wrote: =85 > I have concerns this may break the install image that re@ (or other > parties) produce as well since it may have a broken /sys link if not > built from /usr/src. >=20 > Looking at the freebsd-update kernel I see > "root@releng1.nyi.freebsd.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC" which = means > that the freebsd-upate one should be fine. Not sure about other = images. >=20 > In general I think this is wrong. For meta mode staging I am tempted = to > disable this, but that's no different than non-meta mode really for > images. I don't like the symlink at all, but having it point to = usr/src > is at least only 1 symlink that needs to be setup to fix all = assumptions > (usr/src -> /real/src), rather than now having up to 2 symlinks that > need fixing. I mulled over the change and I agree that the risks outweigh the benefit = (as annoying as it seems to folks like me), so I reverted it in r291568. = I can script /sys install as needed for my environment. Thanks, -NGie=
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