Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 14:51:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Ross Lippert <ripper@eskimo.com> To: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr Cc: bts@babbleon.org, scottro@nyc.rr.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: /usr/share/examples Message-ID: <200207242151.OAA23500@eskimo.com> In-Reply-To: <20020724204404.GA2526@hades.hell.gr> (message from Giorgos Keramidas on Wed, 24 Jul 2002 23:44:05 %2B0300)
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Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> said: >Is this really necessary? I mean, I would expect the share/examples >files to still be there. I don't have a 4.6-RELEASE CD-ROM image >handy, but I mounted my 4.4-RELEASE disk under /cdrom and see what I >found out: With the 4.6-1 CD mounted under /cdrom: ripper@laverne 507$ cat bin.[a-z][a-z] | tar ztvf - | grep share/examples | grep ppp.conf ripper@laverne 508$ ripper@laverne 509$ cat bin.[a-z][a-z] | tar ztvf - | grep share/examples | grep ppp drwxr-xr-x root/wheel 0 Jun 11 00:17 2002 usr/share/examples/isdn/i4brunppp/ drwxr-xr-x root/wheel 0 Jun 11 00:17 2002 usr/share/examples/ppp/ drwxr-xr-x root/wheel 0 Jun 11 00:17 2002 usr/share/examples/pppd/ ripper@laverne 510$ Also, if I mount 4.6-2 the live file system and look in share/examples it is likewise underpopulated. Without the examples files, the handbook's instructions for setting up ppp cannot be followed. The ppp-primer currently presents a sample file which is bad too. I made a pr on this recently when I discovered it. I volunteer to make the patch to the ppp-primer if there isn't a designated maintainer already tasked with this. This situation pretty much prevents someone new to FreeBSD from getting ppp working if they use this release. I believe that, in theory, every release should be self-contained enough that someone can install it and get on the internet to find help for anything else. Is that too much to want? -r To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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