From owner-freebsd-current Tue Apr 30 05:14:35 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id FAA02478 for current-outgoing; Tue, 30 Apr 1996 05:14:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from epprod.elsevier.co.uk (epprod.elsevier.co.uk [193.131.222.35]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id FAA02472 for ; Tue, 30 Apr 1996 05:14:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from snowdon.elsevier.co.uk (snowdon.elsevier.co.uk [193.131.197.164]) by epprod.elsevier.co.uk (8.6.13/8.6.12) with ESMTP id NAA03484 for ; Tue, 30 Apr 1996 13:13:42 +0100 Received: from cadair.elsevier.co.uk (actually host cadair) by snowdon with SMTP (PP); Tue, 30 Apr 1996 13:12:58 +0100 Received: (from dpr@localhost) by cadair.elsevier.co.uk (8.6.12/8.6.12) id NAA23210; Tue, 30 Apr 1996 13:12:45 +0100 From: Paul Richards Message-Id: <199604301212.NAA23210@cadair.elsevier.co.uk> Subject: Re: Files installed to /etc, (was: review request) To: wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de Date: Tue, 30 Apr 1996 13:12:45 +0100 (BST) Cc: phk@critter.tfs.com, bde@zeta.org.au, jkh@time.cdrom.com, current@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199604301105.NAA00655@localhost> from "Wolfram Schneider" at Apr 30, 96 01:05:19 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In reply to Wolfram Schneider who said > > Poul-Henning Kamp writes: > >> > > /usr/share/etc > >> > > >> > That would be obviously wrong. It is >not< shareable, now even inside > >> > the same architecture. > >> > >> Why isn't it? Until it's edited and installed in /etc it should be just > >> a template that would be host independant and entirely shareable? > > > >Yes, host independent, but not architecture independent... > > > >/etc/rc for instance has to be architecture dependent to initialize > >weird HW... > > /usr/share/syscons is architecture dependent too. Hmm. Perhaps we need an architecture dependant shared area for NFS mounting shared resources for particular architectures. Maybe /usr/share/arch/i386 or something. -- Paul Richards. Originative Solutions Ltd. (Netcraft Ltd. contractor) Elsevier Science TIS online journal project. Email: p.richards@elsevier.co.uk Phone: 0370 462071 (Mobile), +44 (0)1865 843155