BIND segway -> python -> first-class ports

John-Mark Gurney jmg at funkthat.com
Tue Dec 10 22:49:17 UTC 2013


Thomas Mueller wrote this message on Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 12:05 +0000:
> > gpart info is already in XML from sysctl kern.geom.confxml...
> 
> > And disklabel has been retired and replaced by gpart...
> 
> -- John-Mark Gurney
> 
> > XML doesn't work for everyone, and as far as disklabel, wasn't aware
> > it was toast in HEAD, it's still around in 9.2 and we've been doing
> > most of our development there so oops!
> 
> -- Alfred
> 
> I just looked in FreeBSD-current, and it appears disklabel, hard-linked with bsdlabel, is alive and well.
> 
> Man page does not show deprecated.

Maybe retired was too strong of a word...  But it is recommended you use
gpart, since bsdlabel can't handled writing when other partitions are
open...

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