Date: Sun, 03 Oct 2004 13:08:12 -0700 From: Tim Kientzle <kientzle@freebsd.org> To: spam maps <spamrefuse@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.3: /stand/ versus /rescue/ ? Message-ID: <41605C2C.8050004@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20041003124353.29822.qmail@web54005.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20041003124353.29822.qmail@web54005.mail.yahoo.com>
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/stand is largely defunct. It is, I believe, still used to bootstrap the CD-ROM installation, but has no particular purpose after that point. Most of these do have counterparts in /rescue (e.g. -sh is redundant with sh, minigzip is redundant with gzip, cpio with pax/tar, etc.) sysinstall is in /usr/sbin now. The point of /rescue is to provide a reliable environment from which a broken /bin and /sbin can be repaired. That seems to boil down to basic tools for locating and copying files from various sources (to replace a hosed shared library, for instance). If there are things that should be in /rescue that would be needed in certain scenarios, feel free to propose additions or changes to /rescue. Be prepared to nominate deletions as well; very many people think that /rescue is already too large. Tim spam maps wrote: > Hello, > > On my cvs-updated 5.3 system I have /stand/ and > /rescue/. > > /rescue/ is updated according to cvsup/makeworld etc., > but /stand/ is not. Is /stand/ becoming redundant? > Should these two directories be merged into a single > /rescue/? > > I notice following differences. Files and directories > that are in /stand/, but not in /rescue/: > > /rescue/-sh > /rescue/arp > /rescue/boot_crunch > /rescue/cpio > /rescue/find > /rescue/minigzip > /rescue/ppp > /rescue/sed > /rescue/sysinstall > /rescue/usbd > /rescue/usbdevs > /rescue/etc/ > /rescue/help/ > > Moreover, for those files that are in both, the > /stand/ > ones are obviously older than the ones (from cvsup > process) in /rescue/. > > Regards, > Rob. > > > > _______________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Declare Yourself - Register online to vote today! > http://vote.yahoo.com > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >
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