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Older zfs boot blocks don't support symlinks. install the link to

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zfsloader as a hard link. While newer ones do, the whole point of the
link was to transition to the new world order smoothly. A hard link is
less flexible, but it works and will result in fewer bumps. Adjust
UPDATING entry to match.
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Warner Losh 2018-07-23 06:04:05 +00:00
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@ -34,9 +34,10 @@ NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 12.x IS SLOW:
20180720:
zfsloader's functionality has now been folded into loader.
zfsloader is no longer necesasary once you've updated your
boot blocks. For a transition period, there will be a symlink
in place from zfsloader to loader to allow a smooth transition
until the boot blocks can be updated.
boot blocks. For a transition period, we will install a
hardlink for zfsloader to loader to allow a smooth transition
until the boot blocks can be updated (hard link because old
zfs boot blocks don't understand symlinks).
20180719:
New uid:gid added, ntpd:ntpd (123:123). Be sure to run mergemaster

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stand/i386/loader/Makefile
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@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ ${LOADER}.bin: ${LOADER}.sym
strip -R .comment -R .note -o ${.TARGET} ${.ALLSRC}
.if ${MK_ZFS} == "yes"
SYMLINKS= ${BINDIR}/${LOADER} ${BINDIR}/zfs${LOADER}
LINKS= ${BINDIR}/${LOADER} ${BINDIR}/zfs${LOADER}
.endif
FILES+= ${LOADER}
# XXX INSTALLFLAGS_loader= -b

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stand/sparc64/loader/Makefile
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@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ HELP_FILES= ${.CURDIR}/help.sparc64
LDFLAGS+= -static
.if ${MK_ZFS} == "yes"
SYMLINKS= ${BINDIR}/loader ${BINDIR}/zfsloader
LINKS= ${BINDIR}/loader ${BINDIR}/zfsloader
.endif
# Open Firmware standalone support library