Re: git: bb63e82e8c10 - main - bsddialog(1): document the replacement of dialog(1)

On 10/10/23 04:25, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> 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)

small typo: s/replace/replaced/

> +
>   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
> 
> 

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Renato Botelho