It does extremely useful things like execute sendmail and spew dubiously
accurate factoids.
From the feedback, it seems like it is an essential utility in a modern unix
and not at all a useless bikeshed. How do those Linux people live without it?
Reverts r358561.
and will slowly transition from /usr/local/man to it. To reflect this remove
the documentation of the manpages being an exception in the layout of /usr/local
Reported by: Dan Nelson <dnelson_1901@yahoo.com> (via IRC)
MFC after: 3 days
Mount the UEFI ESP on /boot/efi. No current system uses this by default, but
there are many ad-hoc schemes that do this in /efi or /esp or /uefi and adding a
new directory at the top-level would have a much higher likelihood of
collision. Document this in /etc/mtree/BSD.root.mtree and create EFIDIR and
related variables in bsd.own.mk.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21344
o Dynamically load all the .so files found in /libexec/nvmecontrol and
/usr/local/libexec/nvmecontrol.
o Link nvmecontrol -rdynamic so that its symbols are visible to the
libraries we load.
o Create concatinated linker sets that we dynamically expand.
o Add the linked-in top and logpage linker sets to the mirrors for them
and add those sets to the mirrors when we load a new .so.
o Add some macros to help hide the names of the linker sets.
o Update the man page.
Sponsored by: Netflix
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D18455
fold
This matches directory structure used commonly in Linux-land, and it's
cleaner than mixing overlays into the existing module paths. Overlays are
still mixed in by specifying fdt_overlays in loader.conf(5).
Reviewed by: manu
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D13922
xlint is currently a fossil. We have much more useful and alive tools
to do now what xlint did twenty years ago.
I did not cleared some stuff which makes lint operational, in
sys/x86/include and sys/sys, but I might do it as followup. The
x86/include/ucontext.h and _types.h hacks made to please lint was the
main reason for my initial proposal to classify xlint as obsolete and
to remove it.
Also I do not intend to clear sccs ids.
Reviewed by: bapt, brooks, emaste, jhb, pfg
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D13015
using "-width". The http://mdocml.bsd.lv/mdoc/details/width.html
says: "Do not use macros in the argument specifying the width,
that's not portable. While GNU troff can handle it, mandoc cannot."
The same problem seems to exist in many other man pages.
Reviewed by: bapt, vangyzen
MFC after: 2 weeks
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D10238
sounds like some kind of horrific theme park. "Hey kids, want to go to
User Land?" "No! We'll be good!"
The obvious replacement is "userland", a compound word replete with
term-of-art meaning and just a hint of cautionary tale. The alternate
terms "flugelhorn" and "bullfrog", while also good, are less well-known
and were voted down in committee.
MFC after: 1 week
This avoids needing a large boot partition / file system in order to
accommodate multiple kernels, and provides consistency with userland
debug. This also simplifies the process of moving kernel debug files
to a separate package and installing them on demand.
In addition, change kernel debug file extension to .debug, to match
userland debug files.
When using the supported kernel installation method the
/usr/lib/debug/boot/kernel directory will be renamed (to kernel.old)
as is done with /boot/kernel.
Developers wishing to maintain the historical behavior of installing
debug files in /boot/kernel/ can set KERN_DEBUGDIR="" in src.conf(5).
Reviewed by: bdrewery, brooks, imp, markj
Relnotes: yes
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D1006
update paths; and include everything in the "base" distribution.
The "games" distribution being optional made sense when there were more
games and we had small disks; but the "games-like" games were moved into
the ports tree a dozen years ago and the remaining "utility-like" games
occupy less than 0.001% of my laptop's small hard drive. Meanwhile every
new user is confronted by the question "do you want games installed" when
they they try to install FreeBSD.
The next steps will be:
2. Removing punch card (bcd, ppt), phase-of-moon (pom), clock (grdc), and
caesar cipher (caesar, rot13) utilities. I intend to keep fortune, factor,
morse, number, primes, and random, since there is evidence that those are
still being used.
3. Merging src/games into src/usr.bin.
This change will not be MFCed.
Reviewed by: jmg
Discussed at: EuroBSDCon
Approved by: gjb (release-affecting changes)
The canonical standalone debug directory established by the GNU
toolchain is /usr/lib/debug, and we use it when WITH_DEBUG_FILES is set.
Mention it in the file system hierarchy page.
Reviewed by: bcr
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D1134
tree support includes a device tree source compiler dtc(8) which
converts .dts files into .dtb files. /boot/loader will load dtb files
from this directory by default, allowing for fewer differences between
images for different SoCs. Compiled dts files will wind up here
eventually as an alternative to embedding them into the kernel.
Document this in hier(7), as well as add missing entries for
/boot/firmware and /boot/zfs, though the latter two should only be
considered place holders if someone wants to make them better.
appropriate (i.e. where syscons was already mentioned and vt supports the
feature). Comments in defaults/rc.conf are updated to match the contents
of the modified man-page rc.conf(5).
Reviewed by: pluknet, emaste
MFC after: 3 days
AppleTalk was a network transport protocol for Apple Macintosh devices
in 80s and then 90s. Starting with Mac OS X in 2000 the AppleTalk was
a legacy protocol and primary networking protocol is TCP/IP. The last
Mac OS X release to support AppleTalk happened in 2009. The same year
routing equipment vendors (namely Cisco) end their support.
Thus, AppleTalk won't be supported in FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE.
IPX was a network transport protocol in Novell's NetWare network operating
system from late 80s and then 90s. The NetWare itself switched to TCP/IP
as default transport in 1998. Later, in this century the Novell Open
Enterprise Server became successor of Novell NetWare. The last release
that claimed to still support IPX was OES 2 in 2007. Routing equipment
vendors (e.g. Cisco) discontinued support for IPX in 2011.
Thus, IPX won't be supported in FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE.
This manual page intends to describe the structure and behavior of
the FreeBSD test suite installed in /usr/tests. The contents have
been inherited from the NetBSD manual page.
As a side effect, this also updates the hier(7) manual page to
mention /usr/tests and points at tests(7) for more details.
Submitted by: Julio Merino jmmv google.com
Reviewed by: sjg
MFC after: 2 weeks