Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 20:43:16 -0500 From: Ryan Sommers <ryans@gamersimpact.com> To: Rob <spamrefuse@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: I deleted /stand/, but I need it again for diskless boot... Message-ID: <41747134.6040003@gamersimpact.com> In-Reply-To: <41746CC6.4030407@yahoo.com> References: <20041013172834.81984.qmail@web54008.mail.yahoo.com> <4172E340.20206@freebsd.org> <41731071.2030405@yahoo.com> <417346BB.3050609@freebsd.org> <41734AFB.2040208@gamersimpact.com> <4173635C.5000304@yahoo.com> <65140.208.4.77.15.1098123461.squirrel@208.4.77.15> <41746CC6.4030407@yahoo.com>
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Rob wrote: > Thanks. I have done all that and the master PC is compiling (it's a slow > system, taking almost a day to compile world). I'll report the results > soon. > > If successful, will you suggest/submit this as an official patch for 5.3; > or will it be merely a personal patch for my diskless setup? > > If it's going into 5.3, then /stand should be removed altogether after > the install process! > > Rob. I doubt it will make it into 5.3. This isn't really a bug fix (yet). I posted a thread in arch@ about it and every response was enthusiastic, so I imagine it will be committed to 6-CURRENT. Once I have a chance to cleanup the rest of the diskless helper scripts it could be added to RELENG_5 because it will be a bug fix (since our provided scripts are heavily out of date for building diskless root's). It's definately too late to have /stand be removed as part of the 5.3 process, although this is where I plan to head once I remove diskless systems from depending on /stand. However, that doesn't mean people won't be able to remove /stand, just that it won't be automated. Just remember, you'll have to rebuild your NFS mounted root partition (or just copy /bin/gzip to it). And after you can also remove /usr/bin/gzip to clean up your system. -- Ryan Sommers ryans@gamersimpact.com
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