[Bug 238192] sysutils/qjail fix bug for platform arm64

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https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=238192

--- Comment #1 from Joe Barbish <qjail1 at a1poweruser.com> ---
Thank you for reporting what you think is a bug.

I would like to know if after getting "qjail install" command to work using
your patch does qjail work normally on arm64 machine architecture? To my
knowledge you are the first to try it there.

If you review the readme file
http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/README.TXT
you get this text.

CONTENTS:
---------

ISO-IMAGES/
        Most users will want to retrieve CD-ROM and DVD ISO images from this
        top-level directory.

FreeBSD releases are identified by a high-level machine type and machine
target architecture:

        amd64/amd64                     Intel/AMD x86_64 (64-bit)
        i386/i386                       Intel/AMD x86 (32-bit)
        ia64/ia64                       Intel Itanium
        powerpc/powerpc                 32-bit PowerPC
        powerpc/powerpc64               64-bit PowerPC
        sparc64/sparc64                 Sparc64

Historically, only machine type was used; those directories also exist to
hold older releases using that scheme:

        amd64
        i386
        ia64
        pc98                            (Desupported)
        powerpc
        sparc64 

If you review the directory layout of any ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases
servers you will see that arm64 is of the old directory type.

Qjail does not support this old directory layout and I will not add support for
it to qjail after previously removing it when the change over was made back
around release 7.0. You can tell from this that your usage of qjail is a very
uncommon special usage case.

I suggest you contact the support group of arm64 and have then update the
directory layout to the newer layout. Or report the old arm64 directory tree
layout as a bug.

The qjail work around is documented in the qjail manual under the 
"qjail install -f" option.
Or you can keep your patch for your personal qjail usage.

Thank you for using qjail.

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