On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 09:33:01AM -0500, Eric van Gyzen wrote: > On 08/14/2013 09:06, Glen Barber wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 08:10:41AM -0500, Eric van Gyzen wrote: > >> NetBSD's makefs has a -Z flag to create the image as a sparse file. In > >> FreeBSD, the flag is spelled -p. Is there a reason for using a > >> different flag? It would be very nice to preserve CLI compatibility > >> with NetBSD. > >> > >> NetBSD committed first (by one month), and neither change has gone into > >> a release yet, so we should change to match NetBSD. We should do it > >> soon, too, since our change will go into 9.2-RELEASE. > >> > >> If we agree, I'll gladly make the patches, trivial though they'll be. > >> > > Can you please try the attached patch? > > Thanks, Glen. That patch would work. However, since our -p flag has > not yet gone into a release, there is no need to keep it. I suggest > that we simply rename -p to -Z, to match NetBSD. The attached patch > does this. >
Not in a release, no, but it is available in stable/ branches. I'd prefer to deprecate the '-p' but keep the option for now, as we have no way to know how many people are using it. Glen
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