Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2011 10:38:45 -0600 From: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> To: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> Cc: doc-committers@FreeBSD.org, re@FreeBSD.org, cvs-doc@FreeBSD.org, emulation@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, Manolis Kiagias <manolis@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: <4EE4DC95.5030706@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20111211152405.000045b5@unknown> References: <201112072132.pB7LW6Aa042461@repoman.freebsd.org> <20111210214025.0000445d@unknown> <4EE3C9C8.9050709@FreeBSD.org> <4EE3CF42.6000703@freebsd.org> <20111211152405.000045b5@unknown>
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On 12/11/11 08:24, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > On Sat, 10 Dec 2011 15:29:38 -0600 Nathan Whitehorn > <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> wrote: > >> On 12/10/11 15:06, Manolis Kiagias wrote: >>> 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. >> This is very easy to do, and the correct place is in >> /usr/src/usr.sbin/bsdinstall/scripts/config. I don't have a good >> sense of what the correct logic is, however, and so would appreciate >> either guidance or patches from emulation-types. > mkdir /usr/compat > ln -s /usr/compat /compat > > To be checked (maybe): can or are parts of this already handled in mtree > files? > - Is /usr/compat already in a mtree file and if not why not? > - Can the link be handled in a mtree file and if yes, should it be > added there instead? > /usr/compat is not currently part of anything. There's also the problem that the user may not actually want it on /usr (e.g. if /usr is read-only or small). I think that for the purposes of 9.0, your suggested patch will do the job, but longer-term, moving them to LOCALBASE seems better. But that's my two cents. -Nathan
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