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Date:      Thu, 21 Apr 2016 11:57:06 +0200
From:      Edward Tomasz =?utf-8?Q?Napiera=C5=82a?= <trasz@FreeBSD.org>
To:        dan_partelly <dan_partelly@rdsor.ro>
Cc:        Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz>, Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [CFT] packaging the base system with pkg(8)
Message-ID:  <20160421095706.GA57206@brick>
In-Reply-To: <79117ce18bd3332c7df3e55e12a161b4@rdsor.ro>
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On 0420T1545, dan_partelly wrote:

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> Another example is the autofs mounter. The prject was marked as complete
> by FreeBSD foundation in 2014. Last I tried it to autmount removable
> devices, it left directory after directory in the autofs managed directory.
> This is known behavior.

Yup.  The problem here is that it's quite hard to fix, there's a risk
of breaking existing functionality, and the problem is largely cosmetic.

> It also did not worked as it should ??? (show it
> manage removable media correctly ) changing CD/DVD media disks. Presumably
> In could have somehow manage it to work by making yet another scaffolding
> of scripts as a questionable glue between devd and automounters.  That if
> devd receives media change notifications. I dont know. If not I could patch
> the kernel, yeah. But it is just much to simple to not bother at all and
> use OSx. 

Huh, never heard about that.  I'd expect the existing mechanism to handle
that case just fine.  Could you submit a PR?

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