From owner-cvs-etc Wed Jun 4 16:09:10 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA28106 for cvs-etc-outgoing; Wed, 4 Jun 1997 16:09:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lsd.relcom.eu.net (lsd.relcom.eu.net [193.124.23.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA28068; Wed, 4 Jun 1997 16:08:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lsd.relcom.eu.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id DAA03322; Thu, 5 Jun 1997 03:08:45 +0400 (MSD) Date: Thu, 5 Jun 1997 03:08:45 +0400 (MSD) From: =?KOI8-R?B?4c7E0sXKIP7F0s7P1w==?= X-Sender: ache@lsd.relcom.eu.net To: Satoshi Asami cc: bde@zeta.org.au, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-etc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc/mtree BSD.include.dist In-Reply-To: <199706042258.PAA01401@vader.cs.berkeley.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-etc@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 4 Jun 1997, Satoshi Asami wrote: > * Do we really need them as directories? > > I guess so, unless we mandate the source dist. You know where the > symlinks are pointing at, right? What bad happen in keeping the same scheme for release and for source distribution and avoid such special cases? I see some troubles happens if somebody will try to extract source distribution over release (symlinks which overwrites directories) > > * In any case some deeper level > * directories not listed here, so I don't understand, how it is possible for > * release. Why just not make symlinks _always_? > > Well, here on a release system (2.1.5 actually): What about deeper level directories I ask? > At any rate, I suggest you back out the change and ask Jordan for > review. This is clearly his region as it concerns the release and not > only "make world". Ok. -- Andrey A. Chernov http://www.nagual.pp.ru/~ache/