Date: Tue, 30 Apr 1996 13:12:45 +0100 (BST) From: Paul Richards <p.richards@elsevier.co.uk> To: wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de Cc: phk@critter.tfs.com, bde@zeta.org.au, jkh@time.cdrom.com, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Files installed to /etc, (was: review request) Message-ID: <199604301212.NAA23210@cadair.elsevier.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <199604301105.NAA00655@localhost> from "Wolfram Schneider" at Apr 30, 96 01:05:19 pm
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In reply to Wolfram Schneider who said > > Poul-Henning Kamp writes: > >> > > /usr/share/etc > >> > > >> > That would be obviously wrong. It is >not< shareable, now even inside > >> > the same architecture. > >> > >> Why isn't it? Until it's edited and installed in /etc it should be just > >> a template that would be host independant and entirely shareable? > > > >Yes, host independent, but not architecture independent... > > > >/etc/rc for instance has to be architecture dependent to initialize > >weird HW... > > /usr/share/syscons is architecture dependent too. Hmm. Perhaps we need an architecture dependant shared area for NFS mounting shared resources for particular architectures. Maybe /usr/share/arch/i386 or something. -- Paul Richards. Originative Solutions Ltd. (Netcraft Ltd. contractor) Elsevier Science TIS online journal project. Email: p.richards@elsevier.co.uk Phone: 0370 462071 (Mobile), +44 (0)1865 843155
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