cvs commit: src/sbin/sunlabel Makefile

[David O'Brien]

On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 08:05:10PM -0800, John-Mark Gurney wrote:
> How about if we replaced disklabel w/ a simple script that described
> why disklabel disappeared?

Why not keep the link?  It is good.

> but at the same time, I've had people
> ask the question: "Why can't my disklabel'd disk on my sparc64 box not
> get seen/understood by my x86 box?  I used the same program to label
> them, yet the partitions aren't appearing on x86."

You can't save idoits from themselves.
 
> If we broke disklabel w/ an explination of what the "real" labels are
> for each arch, I think that this would fix both the short term support
> cost, and the long term understanding and adding of additional platforms
> (for when ppc becomes tier-1)...

You can't really see an Alpha disk, on an i386 box.  And both of them use
'bsdlabel'.  How do you propose to fix that?

> comments?

Leave the link as-is (or replace it with a smarter, advanced script that
runs 'bsdlabel' and 'sunlabel' depending on arguments, host machine,
target machine, etc..).