makefs Sparse Files: NetBSD CLI Compatibility

[Eric van Gyzen]

On 08/14/2013 09:06, Glen Barber wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 08:10:41AM -0500, Eric van Gyzen wrote:
>> NetBSD's makefs has a -Z flag to create the image as a sparse file.  In
>> FreeBSD, the flag is spelled -p.  Is there a reason for using a
>> different flag?  It would be very nice to preserve CLI compatibility
>> with NetBSD.
>>
>> NetBSD committed first (by one month), and neither change has gone into
>> a release yet, so we should change to match NetBSD.  We should do it
>> soon, too, since our change will go into 9.2-RELEASE.
>>
>> If we agree, I'll gladly make the patches, trivial though they'll be.
>>
> Can you please try the attached patch?

Thanks, Glen.  That patch would work.  However, since our -p flag has
not yet gone into a release, there is no need to keep it.  I suggest
that we simply rename -p to -Z, to match NetBSD.  The attached patch
does this.

Eric
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