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Point out that -F probably does not do what the user expects.
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Authored by brooks on Mar 16 2017, 11:05 PM.
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Users attempting to create images from mtree METALOG files created by
installworld often use -F when they should be passing the METALOG file
in place of a directory. This is often produces difficult to debug
error reports.

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Sounds good to me, having been bitten by exactly this issue. If we knew of a use case for -F we could allude to it (e.g. not the option you are looking for, unless ...), but I'm not sure where one would actually want -F.

This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Mar 16 2017, 11:22 PM
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