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Date:      Mon, 13 Dec 1999 23:27:10 -0800
From:      "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>
To:        Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>, obrien@FreeBSD.org (David E. O'Brien), cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/chown Makefile 
Message-ID:  <2269.945156430@zippy.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 13 Dec 1999 21:54:08 PST." <199912140554.VAA00798@mass.cdrom.com> 

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Then we screwed up. :) Things should live at the same /usr/src
subdirectory they install binaries into, when and where that's
possible, and a repository copy keeps all our history intact.  I can't
see why anyone would argue for any other procedure in this case,
frankly?

- Jordan

> > > obrien      1999/12/13 20:48:17 PST
> > > 
> > >   Modified files:
> > >     usr.sbin/chown       Makefile 
> > >   Log:
> > >   Install `chown' into /sbin rather than /usr/sbin as `chown' is needed b
y
> > >   `MAKEDEV'.  And one might need to `MAKEDEV' inorder to get a device nod
e
> > >   in order to mount /usr from.
> > 
> > The sources need repo moved from usr.sbin to sbin and this change ripped
> > out.
> 
> That's debatable.  We didn't do this with sysctl either.
> 
> -- 
> \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\  Mike Smith
> \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself,  \\  msmith@freebsd.org
> \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime.             \\  msmith@cdrom.com
> 
> 
> 



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