cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/desktop chapter.sgml doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/linuxemu chapter.sgml

[Alexander Leidinger]

On Sat, 10 Dec 2011 15:29:38 -0600 Nathan Whitehorn
<nwhitehorn at freebsd.org> wrote:

> On 12/10/11 15:06, Manolis Kiagias wrote:
> > On 10/12/2011 10:40 μμ, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> >> On Wed, 7 Dec 2011 21:32:06 +0000 (UTC) Manolis Kiagias
> >> <manolis at FreeBSD.org>  wrote:
> >>
> >> CCing re@, emulation@ and nwhitehorn@ due to a possible impact in
> >> the upcomming release.
> >>
> >>>    Modified files:
> >>>      en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/desktop chapter.sgml
> >>>      en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/linuxemu chapter.sgml
> >>>    Log:
> >>>    Use /compat/linux/proc instead of /usr/compat/linux/proc as the
> >>> mount point of linproc in the examples, since:
> >>>
> >>>    - linux_base always installs to /compat and creates it as a
> >>> directory if it does not exist as a symlink
> >>>    - Custom installations (not done by sysinstall(8)) may not
> >>> have /compat at all
> >>>    - The linuxemu chapter uses /compat anyway (except a single
> >>> example, fixed)
> >>>    - The new bsdinstall(8) does not create /compat either as
> >>> directory or symlink
> >> Looks like a bug in bsdinstall (and linux_base) to me. What you
> >> write here means that a new release with bsdinstall instead of
> >> sysinstall may cause problems where /compat is in a small
> >> partition and /usr in a big partition (even if it creates a big
> >> one by default, an user may change this). I suggest to fix
> >> bsdinstall before the release of 9.0. It also changes what is
> >> expected by long-term users.
> >
> > Yes, this was discussed in the PR (see 
> > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-doc/2011-December/019270.html 
> > ). I think the best and safer way would be for bsdinstall to create 
> > the link if possible.
> 
> This is very easy to do, and the correct place is in 
> /usr/src/usr.sbin/bsdinstall/scripts/config. I don't have a good
> sense of what the correct logic is, however, and so would appreciate
> either guidance or patches from emulation-types.

mkdir /usr/compat
ln -s /usr/compat /compat

To be checked (maybe): can or are parts of this already handled in mtree
files?
 - Is /usr/compat already in a mtree file and if not why not?
 - Can the link be handled in a mtree file and if yes, should it be
   added there instead?

Bye,
Alexander.

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