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Date:      Thu, 11 Jan 2001 14:23:02 -0800
From:      Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com>
To:        Ben Smithurst <ben@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        cjclark@alum.mit.edu, John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>, bmah@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: sysinstall.8 Breaking buildworld 
Message-ID:  <19745.979251782@winston.osd.bsdi.com>
In-Reply-To: Message from Ben Smithurst <ben@FreeBSD.ORG>  of "Thu, 11 Jan 2001 22:00:21 GMT." <20010111220021.C79365@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> 

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> 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
> 
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