On 12/11/11 08:24, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
On Sat, 10 Dec 2011 15:29:38 -0600 Nathan Whitehorn
<[email protected]> 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
<[email protected]> 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?
/usr/compat is not currently part of anything. There's also the problem
that the user may not actually want it on /usr (e.g. if /usr is
read-only or small). I think that for the purposes of 9.0, your
suggested patch will do the job, but longer-term, moving them to
LOCALBASE seems better. But that's my two cents.
-Nathan
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