Re: sbin/gpt usage

2017-02-12 Thread Hauke Fath
On Sun, 12 Feb 2017 18:21:05 +0100, Aymeric Vincent wrote: > I plan to remove support for the apparently never documented former > syntax and update the UEFI makefile's accordingly, unless someone > remembers why it should remain and on which condition it should be > enabled: the default should be

Re: sbin/gpt usage

2017-02-12 Thread Christos Zoulas
In article <877f4vl1fj@free.fr>, Aymeric Vincent wrote: >chris...@astron.com (Christos Zoulas) writes: > >> I was trying to make it more symmetric with the other *ctl commands >> without breaking existing usage: >> >> gpt [] device [] > >Ah OK, I prefer that one, too. But isn't it too late n

Re: sbin/gpt usage

2017-02-12 Thread Aymeric Vincent
chris...@astron.com (Christos Zoulas) writes: > I was trying to make it more symmetric with the other *ctl commands > without breaking existing usage: > > gpt [] device [] Ah OK, I prefer that one, too. But isn't it too late now that several releases included gpt with the other syntax? Aymeric

Re: sbin/gpt usage

2017-02-12 Thread Christos Zoulas
In article <87fujjl3zy@free.fr>, Aymeric Vincent wrote: > >Hi, > >while trying to understand why gpt(8) didn't work under Linux, I >discovered that it accepts two different usages: > >gpt >and >gpt > >The latter being the one documented in the manpage for ~ever. However, >in the code,

sbin/gpt usage

2017-02-12 Thread Aymeric Vincent
Hi, while trying to understand why gpt(8) didn't work under Linux, I discovered that it accepts two different usages: gpt and gpt The latter being the one documented in the manpage for ~ever. However, in the code, the decision to use it is conditioned by the name of the program being ex