From owner-cvs-all Thu Jan 11 11:37:17 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from lists01.iafrica.com (lists01.iafrica.com [196.7.0.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A69B137B400; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 11:36:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from nwl.fw.uunet.co.za ([196.31.2.162]) by lists01.iafrica.com with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #2) id 14GnWc-0004tq-00; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 21:36:42 +0200 Received: (from nobody@localhost) by nwl.fw.uunet.co.za (8.8.8/8.6.9) id VAA06077; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 21:36:40 +0200 (SAST) Received: by nwl.fw.uunet.co.za via recvmail id 5957; Thu Jan 11 21:35:18 2001 Received: from sheldonh (helo=axl.fw.uunet.co.za) by axl.fw.uunet.co.za with local-esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 14GnVF-0002Of-00; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 21:35:17 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn To: Matt Dillon Cc: obrien@freebsd.org, Doug Barton , cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc crontab rc src/etc/defaults rc.conf src/etc/mtree BSD.root.dist src/libexec Makefile src/libexec/save-entropy Makefile save-entropy.sh In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 11 Jan 2001 11:12:54 PST." <200101111912.f0BJCst72747@earth.backplane.com> Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 21:35:17 +0200 Message-ID: <9216.979241717@axl.fw.uunet.co.za> Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 11 Jan 2001 11:12:54 PST, Matt Dillon wrote: > The level of sophistication and the number of hacks is *NOT* *NECESSARY* > when a simple, minor restructuring of /etc/rc and a tiny change to > mount_mfs (newfs) completely solves the problem. > > You guys are taking a bad idea and making it worse. We're providing an immediate solution to a problem which is a serious annoyance for -CURRENT developers. Furthermore, this solution is a step closer to the end goal (read on). You're flying off the handle because we've replaced one file in the root partition with several files and a directory in the root partition. Now read calmly... When these files can be moved out of the root partition, they will be. That's been accepted since the very first startup-seeding was introduced. When that happens, the changes to crontab and the new save-entropy tool will still be used and we'll just change the entropy_dir in /etc/defaults/rc.conf . See? We know where we're going, we're helping people out until we get there _and_ we're not rising to the bait when people overreact. What more could you want? Now get yourself a cup of decaf and take a few deep breaths. :-) Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message