Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 14:07:55 +0200 From: Matthias Andree <ma@dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de> To: Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Matthias Andree <ma@dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de> Subject: print HEADSUP at installworld time? (was: HEADSUP gconcat(8) and gstripe(8) users!) Message-ID: <m38yd5ac10.fsf_-_@merlin.emma.line.org> In-Reply-To: <20040727054351.GD57678@darkness.comp.waw.pl> (Pawel Jakub Dawidek's message of "Tue, 27 Jul 2004 07:43:51 %2B0200") References: <20040725165127.GX57678@darkness.comp.waw.pl> <m3llh6lbqw.fsf@merlin.emma.line.org> <20040727054351.GD57678@darkness.comp.waw.pl>
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Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org> writes: > +> I wonder if "make installworld" should display such warnings (or head > +> /usr/src/UPDATING FWIW) and give the user a chance to abort the > +> installation. > > First of all, I don't think there are many gstripe/gconcat users out there. > > Gstripe as well as gconcat was introduced after 5.2.1 - there was no > FreeBSD release with this code. > > That's why I think this is not necessary, this is -CURRENT and user can > always fix his /etc/fstab on boot. OK, not for gstripe/gconcat then, but I'm wondering if a mechanism to print such announcements would generally be useful. Changing subject. -- Matthias Andree Encrypted mail welcome: my GnuPG key ID is 0x052E7D95 (PGP/MIME preferred)
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