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Date:      Sat, 22 May 2004 11:17:24 -0700 (PDT)
From:      John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
To:        Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Move /usr/sup to /var/db/sup?
Message-ID:  <XFMail.20040522111724.jdp@polstra.com>
In-Reply-To: <p06020403bcd422915d2e@[128.113.24.47]>

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On 21-May-2004 Garance A Drosihn wrote:
> I have no idea if that is why someone went with /usr/sup in
> the example supfiles, though.

I do. :-)  That was the location in the original supfiles used by the
old "sup" utility that CVSup replaced.  When I first released CVSup
I made it so that people could use their old supfiles unmodified --
simply because I wanted it to be as easy as possible to switch to
CVSup so a lot of people would try it out.

I agree that /usr/sup is a lousy place for the metadata, and that
something under /var/db would be a lot more sensible.

John



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