docs/163102: linprocfs mounted in wrong location in Handbook

[Kevin Baxter]

The following reply was made to PR docs/163102; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Kevin Baxter <voidchicken at gmail.com>
To: Manolis Kiagias <sonic2000gr at gmail.com>
Cc: freebsd-doc at freebsd.org, bug-followup at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: docs/163102: linprocfs mounted in wrong location in Handbook
Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2011 10:38:40 -0800

 On 12/07/2011 10:26, Manolis Kiagias wrote:
 > On 7/12/2011 7:20 ìì, Patrick Lamaiziere wrote:
 >> The following reply was made to PR docs/163102; it has been noted by 
 >> GNATS.
 >>
 >> From: Patrick Lamaiziere<patfbsd at davenulle.org>
 >> To: bug-followup at freebsd.org<bug-followup at freebsd.org>
 >> Cc: Kevin Baxter<voidchicken at gmail.com>
 >> Subject: Re: docs/163102: linprocfs mounted in wrong location in 
 >> Handbook
 >> Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2011 18:02:34 +0100
 >>
 >>   Le Wed, 7 Dec 2011 15:30:15 GMT,
 >>   Kevin Baxter<voidchicken at gmail.com>  a écrit :
 >>
 >> >   $ ls /usr/compat
 >> >   ls: /usr/compat: No such file or directory
 >> >   $ ls -ld /compat
 >> >   drwxr-xr-x   3 root  wheel        3 Jan 17  2010 compat
 >> >
 >> >   It isn't a symlink on my system. At what point in installation is it
 >> >   supposed to have been created? I don't see a mention of that
 >> >  anywhere in the Handbook. Chapter 11.2 even refers to /compat/linux
 >> >  instead of /usr/compat/linux.
 >>
 >>   On 9.0 bsdinstall does not create the /compat symlink. Or
 >>   even /compat, it is created when you install the linux base.
 >>   You have to move /compat to /usr/compat and create the link by hand.
 >
 > I've checked on 9.0-RC2 and the link is there, but my installs were 
 > upgraded from 8.2-RELEASE, so you may have a point there. I'll check 
 > on a clean 9.0-RC3 install shortly and report findings.
 >
 >>
 >>   This is a bug in bsdinstall imho. Sysintall did it. I don't know if
 >>   this is fixed (I've installed with a 9.0 beta usb key)
 >>
 >>   Regards.
 >
 > If it happens that 9.0 installs into /compat, we should either add 
 > this to the documentation or file a PR so that either the linux_base 
 > package or bsdinstall creates the link.
 > But from the current PR it seems the OP was using 8.2-RELEASE which 
 > should not exhibit this.
 
 I'm using a ZFS root, so I used the wiki's RootOnZFS page to install 
 (which doesn't use sysinstall, and doesn't mention /compat).
 
 So is this a case of a non-standard installation being unsupported? 
 Should the wiki be changed to include that symlink? Or should one of the 
 install scripts be changed to make the symlink?