cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/sysinstall installUpgrade.c

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <20070606092836.GL1834 at submonkey.net>, Ceri Davies writes:
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>On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 06:56:42PM +0930, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
>> On Wednesday 06 June 2007 17:10, Ceri Davies wrote:
>> > > Right answer:  Why not read it from sysctl kern.geom.confxml
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>> > That sounds like the right thing to do, but that sysctl returns
>> > nothing on my RELENG_6 system; why would that be?
>>=20
>> Also, parsing it could be problematic :(
>> (XML isn't in sysinstall's limited repertoire)

Please look at how gstat uses a convenient library function to
do just that...

>Well there is kern.geom.conftxt :)

Please don't  That is only a crutch for the old crufty libdisk.

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