bsddialog(1): document the replacement of dialog(1)

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Baptiste Daroussin 2023-10-10 09:24:25 +02:00
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@ -10,6 +10,9 @@ newline. Entries should be separated by a newline.
Changes to this file should not be MFCed.
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dialog(1) has been replace by bsddialog(1)
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FreeBSD 15.0 will not include support for 32-bit platforms.
However, 64-bit systems will still be able to run older 32-bit

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@ -27,6 +27,16 @@ NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 15.x IS SLOW:
world, or to merely disable the most expensive debugging functionality
at runtime, run "ln -s 'abort:false,junk:false' /etc/malloc.conf".)
20231010:
dialog(1) has been replaced in base by bsddialog(1), while most of the
time replacing a dialog(1) call by a bsddialog(1) call works out of the
box, bsddialog(1) is not considered as a drop-in replacement dialog(1).
If you do depend on dialog(1) functionnality, please install cdialog
from ports:
pkg install cdialog
20230927:
The EARLY_AP_STARTUP kernel option is mandatory on x86. The option
has been added to DEFAULTS, so it should automatically be included in