Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 23:17:58 +0200 From: Johan Pettersson <manlix@demonized.net> To: Matthias Andree <ma@dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de> Cc: pjd@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: print HEADSUP at installworld time? (was: HEADSUP gconcat(8) and gstripe(8) users!) Message-ID: <20040727231758.54e68418.manlix@demonized.net> In-Reply-To: <m38yd5ac10.fsf_-_@merlin.emma.line.org> References: <20040725165127.GX57678@darkness.comp.waw.pl> <m3llh6lbqw.fsf@merlin.emma.line.org> <20040727054351.GD57678@darkness.comp.waw.pl> <m38yd5ac10.fsf_-_@merlin.emma.line.org>
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On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 14:07:55 +0200 Matthias Andree <ma@dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de> wrote: > 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. > Why? Users should read UPDATING before upgrading.
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