Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2004 07:52:45 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org> Cc: cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc Makefile Message-ID: <20041007075245.282af23f@dev.lan.Awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: <20041006204541.GA91640@ip.net.ua> References: <200410051303.i95D38Nl047864@repoman.freebsd.org> <20041005170427.548e6e9d@dev.lan.Awfulhak.org> <20041005172056.GA4568@ip.net.ua> <20041005230204.5401f0be@dev.lan.Awfulhak.org> <20041006204541.GA91640@ip.net.ua>
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On Wed, 6 Oct 2004 23:45:41 +0300, Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org> wrote:
> Hi Brian,
>
> On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 11:02:04PM +0100, Brian Somers wrote:
> > On Tue, 5 Oct 2004 20:20:56 +0300, Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org> wrote:
> > > > Shouldn't this be:
> > > >
> > > > ln -fhs ../var/named/etc/namedb ${DESTDIR}/etc/namedb
> > > >
> > > No.
> >
> > If I mount an alternate filesystem hierarchy somewhere, isn't it a bit
> > useless/dangerous for symlinks to point outside of it?
> >
> Please explain in more detail, I don't get it. (There are several
> symlinks already exist in /etc, and most of them are absolute.)
>
Well, it looks like there's rmt -> /usr/sbin/rmt and termcap ->
/usr/share/misc/termcap. I'd vote for making these relative too ;*)
I don't think these are as important as it's pretty rare that a person
needs to change /etc/termcap these days, and even more rare that they
would want to change /etc/rmt.
People with removable disks might want to configure them on one system
and then attach them to another, and part of that configuration might
be to set up a nameserver. It would be an easy mistake to change
/mnt/etc/namedb/named.conf, ship the disk, then find out that you've
just broken the machine you configured from...
--
Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org> <brian@[uk.]FreeBSD.org>
<http://www.Awfulhak.org>; <brian@[uk.]OpenBSD.org>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !
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