Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 11:09:03 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjclark@reflexnet.net> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com>, current@FreeBSD.org, stable@FreeBSD.org, cjclark@alum.mit.edu, bmah@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: sysinstall.8 Breaking buildworld Message-ID: <20010111110903.B90221@rfx-64-6-211-149.users.reflexco> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.010111105343.jhb@FreeBSD.org>; from jhb@FreeBSD.org on Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 10:53:43AM -0800 References: <18455.979234814@winston.osd.bsdi.com> <XFMail.010111105343.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 10:53:43AM -0800, John Baldwin wrote: > > On 11-Jan-01 Jordan Hubbard wrote: > >> My personal opinion is that sysinstall.8 is a part of the base system > >> and shouldn't be optional. If we take your suggestion, it means that > >> installworld will sometimes install this manpage and sometimes it won't. > > > > I think we should simply move the stupid man page into man8. It's a bit > > weird to have a man page and its utility live in seperate places, but > > the release/ directory in the hierarchy has always been a red-headed > > stepchild in any case. If I had it to do over, it would have all gone > > into /usr/src/sbin somewhere. > > Let's put sysinstall back in sbin/ then. It _used_ to live there until someone > moved it. :) > > -r--r--r-- 1 root src 62356 Dec 30 1995 > /usr/cvs/src/sbin/sysinstall/Attic/sysinstall.c,v I had assumed that sysinstall was not part of the standard installworld for recovery purposes. That is, if a buildworld-installworld were to totally hose your system (but of course that _never_ happens), you would still have a reliable /stand/sysinstall uncorrupted by the errant installworld to aid in fixing things. Again, this is just what I assumed the reason for the design to be. And I have never actually used sysinstall to recover a hosed upgrade, I like the fixit.flp. But IMHO, either both /stand/sysinstall and sysinstall.8 get installed when building world or neither do. To me, that seems clear cut. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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