svn commit: r290840 - head/etc

NGie Cooper yaneurabeya at gmail.com
Tue Dec 1 06:24:28 UTC 2015


> On Nov 30, 2015, at 13:01, Bryan Drewery <bdrewery at FreeBSD.org> wrote:

…

> I have concerns this may break the install image that re@ (or other
> parties) produce as well since it may have a broken /sys link if not
> built from /usr/src.
> 
> Looking at the freebsd-update kernel I see
> "root at releng1.nyi.freebsd.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC" which means
> that the freebsd-upate one should be fine. Not sure about other images.
> 
> In general I think this is wrong.  For meta mode staging I am tempted to
> disable this, but that's no different than non-meta mode really for
> images. I don't like the symlink at all, but having it point to usr/src
> is at least only 1 symlink that needs to be setup to fix all assumptions
> (usr/src -> /real/src), rather than now having up to 2 symlinks that
> need fixing.

I mulled over the change and I agree that the risks outweigh the benefit (as annoying as it seems to folks like me), so I reverted it in r291568. I can script /sys install as needed for my environment.
Thanks,
-NGie


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