git: bb63e82e8c10 - main - bsddialog(1): document the replacement of dialog(1)
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Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2023 07:25:13 UTC
The branch main has been updated by bapt: URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=bb63e82e8c109156b31e806fac8ecefbd259a0ed commit bb63e82e8c109156b31e806fac8ecefbd259a0ed Author: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> AuthorDate: 2023-10-10 07:24:25 +0000 Commit: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> CommitDate: 2023-10-10 07:24:25 +0000 bsddialog(1): document the replacement of dialog(1) --- RELNOTES | 3 +++ UPDATING | 10 ++++++++++ 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+) diff --git a/RELNOTES b/RELNOTES index c5686a4f30fb..880cec5d3fe1 100644 --- a/RELNOTES +++ b/RELNOTES @@ -10,6 +10,9 @@ newline. Entries should be separated by a newline. Changes to this file should not be MFCed. +ff01d71e48d4: + dialog(1) has been replace by bsddialog(1) + 41582f28ddf7: FreeBSD 15.0 will not include support for 32-bit platforms. However, 64-bit systems will still be able to run older 32-bit diff --git a/UPDATING b/UPDATING index a1bcecadd357..0064e53c7a53 100644 --- a/UPDATING +++ b/UPDATING @@ -27,6 +27,16 @@ NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 15.x IS SLOW: world, or to merely disable the most expensive debugging functionality at runtime, run "ln -s 'abort:false,junk:false' /etc/malloc.conf".) +20231010: + dialog(1) has been replaced in base by bsddialog(1), while most of the + time replacing a dialog(1) call by a bsddialog(1) call works out of the + box, bsddialog(1) is not considered as a drop-in replacement dialog(1). + + If you do depend on dialog(1) functionnality, please install cdialog + from ports: + + pkg install cdialog + 20230927: The EARLY_AP_STARTUP kernel option is mandatory on x86. The option has been added to DEFAULTS, so it should automatically be included in