From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 8 17:41:07 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B01C2106566B; Thu, 8 Dec 2011 17:41:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from cyrus.watson.org (cyrus.watson.org [65.122.17.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7046E8FC17; Thu, 8 Dec 2011 17:41:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from bigwig.baldwin.cx (bigwig.baldwin.cx [96.47.65.170]) by cyrus.watson.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id E645B46B37; Thu, 8 Dec 2011 12:41:06 -0500 (EST) Received: from John-Baldwins-MacBook-Air.local (c-68-36-150-83.hsd1.nj.comcast.net [68.36.150.83]) by bigwig.baldwin.cx (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 651C1B91E; Thu, 8 Dec 2011 12:41:06 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <4EE0F6B2.8090005@FreeBSD.org> Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2011 12:41:06 -0500 From: John Baldwin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111105 Thunderbird/8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Manolis Kiagias References: <201112071830.pB7IUEHQ082055@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <201112071830.pB7IUEHQ082055@freefall.freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.7 (bigwig.baldwin.cx); Thu, 08 Dec 2011 12:41:06 -0500 (EST) Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org, Nathan Whitehorn Subject: Re: docs/163102: linprocfs mounted in wrong location in Handbook X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2011 17:41:07 -0000 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 > 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 > > To: bug-followup@freebsd.org > > Cc: Kevin Baxter > > 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 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