From owner-freebsd-current Sun Feb 20 14:11:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [169.237.7.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9632E37BEFD for <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG>; Sun, 20 Feb 2000 14:11:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (root@d60-025.leach.ucdavis.edu [169.237.60.25]) by relay.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA66562; Sun, 20 Feb 2000 14:10:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id OAA15195; Sun, 20 Feb 2000 14:10:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 14:10:35 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing linux_base 6.1 Message-ID: <20000220141035.L14682@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20000220133512.I14682@dragon.nuxi.com> <14945.951083250@zippy.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <14945.951083250@zippy.cdrom.com>; from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com on Sun, Feb 20, 2000 at 01:47:30PM -0800 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Keyid: 34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Feb 20, 2000 at 01:47:30PM -0800, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > You miss the point entirely. Possibly. > For others that's anywhere but since /usr is a comparatively small, > read-only partition which they share amongst multiple boxes and they > want the compat stuff to go in /usr/local/share/compat or something. > The symlink gives you that flexibility and the fact that sysinstall So they make /usr/compat be a symlink to where ever. As they may do for /usr/X11R6. Buy why not reduce the complexity for the 90% case? If we really imagine people wanting to put the compat bits elsewhere, then we should make the location a knob in /etc/rc.conf and a sysctl to tell the linux and osf1 image activators where to find the compat bits. > I should also point out that making it a non-symlink would also > completely break the linux_base port (for one) on those systems where > /usr (and hence /usr/compat) is a read-only volume. How did those read-only volumes get populated? How was the initial install done? Build worlds? I don't see where installing compat bits is any different. > Ports aren't even technically supposed to touch anything outside of > /usr/local, A mistake, but that's too far gone to fix. [should have been /usr/pkg] -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.com) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message