From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jan 11 14:23:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from winston.osd.bsdi.com (winston.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.27.229]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26D2737B6BC; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 14:23:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from winston.osd.bsdi.com (jkh@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by winston.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f0BMN2i19749; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 14:23:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com) To: Ben Smithurst Cc: cjclark@alum.mit.edu, John Baldwin , bmah@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sysinstall.8 Breaking buildworld In-Reply-To: Message from Ben Smithurst of "Thu, 11 Jan 2001 22:00:21 GMT." <20010111220021.C79365@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 14:23:02 -0800 Message-ID: <19745.979251782@winston.osd.bsdi.com> From: Jordan Hubbard Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > yeah, but it can be used as many things. If invoked as "rm" sysinstall > behaves just like the real rm, it happens to be one big binary. This, however, is merely "post-installation behavior" - if you rebuild and reinstall sysinstall in order to catch up with a bug fix to it, however, then this behavior goes away. - Jordan > > > Well, /stand/rm is not _really_ rm at all, but I get the point. I > > guess the only question is whether to put it in /sbin or /usr/sbin. I > > think /sbin makes sense (so it is bootable), but it is 1.6MB of > > /-bloat... But from another thread about making 250MB the default / > > size, I guess few care too much about that anymore. > > I'd prefer it in /usr/sbin, some of my root partitions are only 32MB, > and that's not big enough at the moment. If your /usr is hosed to > the extent you can't mount it you've probably got more problems than > sysinstall will help you with. But that's just my opinion. > > -- > Ben Smithurst / ben@FreeBSD.org / PGP: 0x99392F7D > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message