From owner-cvs-all Wed Dec 30 18:27:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA05868 for cvs-all-outgoing; Wed, 30 Dec 1998 18:27:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from zippy.cdrom.com (zippy.cdrom.com [204.216.27.228]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA05859; Wed, 30 Dec 1998 18:27:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com) Received: from zippy.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by zippy.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id SAA13346; Wed, 30 Dec 1998 18:27:18 -0800 (PST) To: Peter Wemm cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libdisk Makefile In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 31 Dec 1998 09:58:48 +0800." <199812310158.JAA88604@spinner.netplex.com.au> Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 18:27:18 -0800 Message-ID: <13342.915071238@zippy.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > This doesn't work since there's a chicken/egg problem. /boot/boot1 and > /boot/boot2 do not exist until an 'installworld'. However, the very > first stage of 'make buildworld' needs it when it builds src/lib so it > falls over unless they already exist. And even then, a new buildworld > uses the stale bootblocks from the last buildworld session. Yeah, I'm finding this out now - Bruce pointed this out yesterday and I've been trying to find time to give it some thought in between all the core wars we've been having. :-) > I don't know exactly what libdisk is used for so I can't suggest an > alternative. Are these the only bootblock source for libdisk? Or just a It's used only for sysinstall currently - that's literally it. Hmmmmm... Given that, and the fact that other clients for it have not surfaced in the n years that libdisk has been with us, I suppose we could move it right under sysinstall? - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message