On Wed, 17 Apr 2013 14:35:27 -0400
Mike Frysinger <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Saturday 13 April 2013 13:06:04 Jeroen Roovers wrote:
> > On Fri, 12 Apr 2013 16:08:10 -0400 Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > > that you remember.  i think it's more likely you copy & pasted some
> > > line a long time ago than baselayout modified it for you.
> > 
> > Exactly, but where did that come from?
> 
> probably worthwhile to track down to better understand, but i don't think the 
> answer will change the result
> 
> > > two people who have installs that are a decade old doesn't incline me
> > > to write a news entry.  not when the ebuild itself contains a sanity
> > > check that triggers exactly as needed and includes an error message
> > > explaining things. we aren't talking about an upgrade here that will
> > > silently & accidentally break your box on next boot (like udev &
> > > friends), or will break running programs (like SONAME bumps, although
> > > that's a much less of a problem now that portage handles things
> > > automatically).
> > 
> > I have been looking through old copies of the Handbook in the last
> > hour, assuming the fstab entry may have been included there at some
> > point. I haven't done anything like a thorough search, but I assume it
> > may have slipped into the handbook at some point and was later removed
> > (as some CVS log entries from 2004 seem to suggest).
> 
> it's at times like this i wish we had a git repo.  `git log -p -C -M` is 
> great 
> at tracking this sort of stuff down.
> -mike

I usually rsync locally cvs tree and then convert it to git:

    rsync://anonvcs.gentoo.org/vcs-public-cvsroot/{CVSROOT,gentoo/xml/}
    cvsps --root :local:/path/to/ --fast-export gentoo/xml/htdocs | git 
fast-import

Takes around 5 minutes to convert.

$ git log --stat -S ' devpts ' # shows that 'devpts' suggestion comes from an 
LVM guide:

    commit 658b3ab06b4919f102efaffe756b8b6c1d378fd0
    Author: drobbins <drobbins>
    Date:   Sat Nov 9 18:47:44 2002 +0000

    try #10030

     doc/cz/altinstall.xml | 360 
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
     doc/en/altinstall.xml | 350 
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
     2 files changed, 710 insertions(+)

and it is still there.

$ git grep devpts:

doc/ca/altinstall.xml:none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
doc/da/altinstall.xml:none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
doc/de/altinstall.xml:none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
doc/en/altinstall.xml:none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
doc/en/articles/lvm-p2.xml:none                /dev/pts         devpts       
mode=620      0 0
doc/es/altinstall.xml:none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
doc/es/articles/lvm-p2.xml:none                /dev/pts         devpts       
mode=620      0 0
doc/fr/altinstall.xml:none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
doc/fr/selinux-uml-guide.xml:none    /dev/pts    devpts       gid=5,mode=620    
0    0
doc/id/altinstall.xml:none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
doc/it/altinstall.xml:none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
doc/it/articles/lvm-p2.xml:none                /dev/pts         devpts       
mode=620      0 0
doc/ja/altinstall.xml:none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
doc/nl/altinstall.xml:none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
doc/pl/altinstall.xml:none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
doc/pt_br/altinstall.xml:none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
doc/ru/altinstall.xml:none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
doc/vi/altinstall.xml:none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
doc/zh_cn/articles/lvm-p2.xml:none                /dev/pts         devpts       
mode=620      0 0

Looks like many are incorrect including this:
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/articles/lvm-p2.xml

HTH

-- 

  Sergei

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