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Date:      Sat, 10 Dec 2011 23:06:16 +0200
From:      Manolis Kiagias <manolis@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net>
Cc:        re@FreeBSD.org, cvs-doc@FreeBSD.org, emulation@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, nwhitehorn@FreeBSD.org, doc-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/desktop chapter.sgml doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/linuxemu chapter.sgml
Message-ID:  <4EE3C9C8.9050709@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20111210214025.0000445d@unknown>
References:  <201112072132.pB7LW6Aa042461@repoman.freebsd.org> <20111210214025.0000445d@unknown>

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On 10/12/2011 10:40 μμ, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Dec 2011 21:32:06 +0000 (UTC) Manolis Kiagias
> <manolis@FreeBSD.org>  wrote:
>
> CCing re@, emulation@ and nwhitehorn@ due to a possible impact in the
> upcomming release.
>
>>    Modified files:
>>      en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/desktop chapter.sgml
>>      en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/linuxemu chapter.sgml
>>    Log:
>>    Use /compat/linux/proc instead of /usr/compat/linux/proc as the
>> mount point of linproc in the examples, since:
>>
>>    - linux_base always installs to /compat and creates it as a
>> directory if it does not exist as a symlink
>>    - Custom installations (not done by sysinstall(8)) may not
>> have /compat at all
>>    - The linuxemu chapter uses /compat anyway (except a single
>> example, fixed)
>>    - The new bsdinstall(8) does not create /compat either as directory
>> or symlink
> Looks like a bug in bsdinstall (and linux_base) to me. What you write
> here means that a new release with bsdinstall instead of sysinstall may
> cause problems where /compat is in a small partition and /usr in a big
> partition (even if it creates a big one by default, an user may change
> this). I suggest to fix bsdinstall before the release of 9.0. It also
> changes what is expected by long-term users.

Yes, this was discussed in the PR (see 
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-doc/2011-December/019270.html 
). I think the best and safer way would be for bsdinstall to create the 
link if possible.



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