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Date:      Tue, 12 Mar 2002 10:32:30 -0800
From:      "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Cliff Sarginson <csfbsd@raggedclown.net>
Cc:        stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: /usr/sbin/sysinstall for -stable (cvs commit: src/release/sy 
Message-ID:  <200203121832.g2CIWUs25950@bmah.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020312140950.GB1577@raggedclown.net> 
References:  <200203120130.MAA17703@lightning.itga.com.au> <20020312140950.GB1577@raggedclown.net>

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If memory serves me right, Cliff Sarginson wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 12:30:40PM +1100, Gregory Bond wrote:

> > Actually, it violated my POLA to discover sysinstall wasn't rebuild during 
> > buildworld....
> > 
> Mine too :)
> I would have no objections to it being moved.
> I am wondering if there are any serious implications of not being able
> to run it in single-user with only / mounted. I cannot think of
> any... ?
> If there are maybe /sbin is the place.
> It is going to get moved anyway, might as well do it now. With a big
> note in UPDATING of course...and a little script to echo this fact when
> you type "./sysinstall" in "/stand" ?

Uh...wait a sec...

/stand/sysinstall is the crunched binary that you get on the 
installation media.  It is never updated with an installworld.  As far 
as I can tell, this is true even on -CURRENT systems.

/usr/sbin/sysinstall exists only on -CURRENT.  It is a "normal",
dynamically-linked executable that *does* get updated with a buildworld/
installworld.

pdmonitor:bmah% ldd /stand/sysinstall
ldd: /stand/sysinstall: not a dynamic executable
pdmonitor:bmah% ldd /usr/sbin/sysinstall
/usr/sbin/sysinstall:
        libdialog.so.4 => /usr/lib/libdialog.so.4 (0x280af000)
        libncurses.so.5 => /usr/lib/libncurses.so.5 (0x280c8000)
        libutil.so.3 => /usr/lib/libutil.so.3 (0x28109000)
        libftpio.so.5 => /usr/lib/libftpio.so.5 (0x28112000)
        libc.so.5 => /usr/lib/libc.so.5 (0x28118000)
pdmonitor:bmah% uname -a
FreeBSD pdmonitor.packetdesign.com 5.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT #4: Wed Feb 20 15:33:48 PST 2002     root@pdmonitor.packetdesign.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386

Personally, I wouldn't mind seeing sysinstall moved either...it makes 
doing MFCs easier.  :-)

Bruce.

PS.  I'm sure some other RE type is going to prove me wrong on about 
half of the stuff I said above, but that's my understanding of the 
situation.



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