Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2003 14:10:32 -0400 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> To: dick hoogendijk <dick@nagual.st> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: stand/.. Message-ID: <3E985698.9040504@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: <20030412175317.GA5006@lothlorien.nagual.st> References: <20030411144708.GA10119@pooh.nagual.st> <3E974942.1000508@potentialtech.com> <20030412175317.GA5006@lothlorien.nagual.st>
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dick hoogendijk wrote: > On 11 Apr Bill Moran wrote: > >>Dick Hoogendijk wrote: >> >>>Do I wipe this "stand" dir? Or do I "refresh it" somehow. I also have >>>the 4.8 release on CD.. Any advice would be appreciated. >> >>/stand contains the wonderful sysinstall ... which can be used for many >>system administrative duties. >>/stand should get updated when you buildworld. > > I like /stand/sysinstall too for the same reasons you mention. I did a > buildworld, so I guess /stand is updated.. > > The reason I ask is that all other (new) compiled programs have the date > of the buildworld. (april 11) But NOT for "/stand" > It still is Oct 9 2002 > and I don't know why.. Is this 'cause it's kind of a "special" dir w/ no > "real" files? Like to learn something here.. Ok ... I'm gonna have to eat crow and correct myself here ... /stand is NOT updated by buildworld ... I don't know why, but (as someone else pointed out) it's clearly stated so in the hanbook (section 21.4.12 on this page: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html So ... I apologize for the misinformation. The correct information is in the handbook (as usual) as well as the proceedure for updating /stand Additionally, there's another good reason for keeping it around in the handbook (contains static binaries that don't need other filesystems mounted). -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com
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