cvs commit: src/sbin/sunlabel Makefile

[Ruslan Ermilov]

On Thu, Apr 17, 2003 at 02:04:24PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <20030417113315.GG16563 at locore.ca>, Jake Burkholder writes:
> 
> >Please do not re-enable disklabel on sparc64 unless you call it something
> >else.  I'm saying this with my port master hat on.
> 
> I agree with Jake.
> 
So do I.  :-)

> And putting on whatever flimsy hat I have with a rusty old badge
> reading "generally mucking about in the area of disks":
> 
> 1. We repocopy disklabel(8) to bsdlabel(8) and install it under that
>    name on all architectures.
> 
> 2. We install a symlink from disklabel to bsdlabel on the following
>    architectures throughout the 5.x branch's lifetime.
> 	i386
> 	pc98
> 	alpha
> 
> 3. On all other platforms, and at all other times, we install a small
>    shell script which prints some helpful information relevant to the
>    platform it is run on.
> 
> 4. Should we some day get a unified disk-partitioning tool, whoever
>    writes it gets to choose the name they want it to bear, including
>    "disklabel" should it be worthy of such a general name.
> 
5. Fix documentation as necessary.

Yes please.  And please change the link type for disklabel -> sunlabel
to "symlink" too.

P.S.  What are you plans regarding <sys/disklabel.h> then?


Cheers,
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