Re: install/49579: postinstall doesn't detect/fix ksyms major device number change

[Lloyd Parkes <lloyd%must-have-coffee.gen.nz@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR install/49579; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Lloyd Parkes <lloyd%must-have-coffee.gen.nz@localhost>
To: "John D. Baker" <jdbaker%mylinuxisp.com@localhost>
Cc: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Subject: Re: install/49579: postinstall doesn't detect/fix ksyms major device number change
Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2015 19:05:47 +1300

 On 17/01/2015, at 6:42 pm, John D. Baker <jdbaker%mylinuxisp.com@localhost> wrote:
 
 > This looks like you updated to amd64 on a machine previously running
 > i386:
 
 
 I=92ve had a very close look and I=92m sure you are right.
 
 I have two of these machines (one prod, one test) and they used to be =
 i386 boxes way back in the past. They=92ve been virtual 64 bit systems =
 for a while now. I didn=92t snapshot the virtual machine that I upgraded =
 before the upgrade, so I compared it against my production machine. The =
 reason that snmpd wasn=92t complaining on the production machine was =
 because I wasn=92t running snmpd on it. I never have.
 
 I=92m not sure it=92s worth trying to catch this problem. Switching from =
 i386 to amd64 is so easy that nobody is ever going to read any =
 documentation and in my case, the conversion was many years in the past. =
 If there is an easy way to put something in postinstall, then sure, but =
 I won=92t complain if this PR is close with =93user error=94.
 
 Cheers,
 Lloyd