From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 21 15:16:06 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CD0616A4CE for ; Fri, 21 May 2004 15:16:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sccrmhc13.comcast.net (sccrmhc13.comcast.net [204.127.202.64]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B10A843D1D for ; Fri, 21 May 2004 15:16:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cristjc@comcast.net) Received: from blossom.cjclark.org (c-24-6-187-112.client.comcast.net[24.6.187.112]) by comcast.net (sccrmhc13) with ESMTP id <20040521221556016009chqfe>; Fri, 21 May 2004 22:15:56 +0000 Received: from blossom.cjclark.org (localhost. [127.0.0.1]) by blossom.cjclark.org (8.12.9p2/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i4LMFt8B008893; Fri, 21 May 2004 15:15:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cristjc@comcast.net) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by blossom.cjclark.org (8.12.9p2/8.12.9/Submit) id i4LMFslK008892; Fri, 21 May 2004 15:15:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cristjc@comcast.net) X-Authentication-Warning: blossom.cjclark.org: cjc set sender to cristjc@comcast.net using -f Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 15:15:54 -0700 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: Mark Linimon Message-ID: <20040521221554.GA8734@blossom.cjclark.org> References: <20040521214733.GA1549@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-URL: http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Move /usr/sup to /var/db/sup? X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 22:16:06 -0000 On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 04:57:24PM -0500, Mark Linimon wrote: > Could we also consider the approach of leaving the supfiles in > /usr/sup (since they are small and only rarely change) and having > the files that change in /var/db/sup, or does the directory need > to be the same? You can put the supfiles wherever you want. There is no standard place for a supfile. Since the "base" is specified in the supfile, there is a chicken-and-egg problem of placing the supfile in the base directory and expecting CVSup to find it. In addition, it would probably make more sense to put supfiles in the base directory (which is /usr in the examples) rather than in the sup directory (/usr/sup). I suspect most would consider having supfiles in /usr quite an afront. I didn't want to have to discuss the implications of the fact that the hardcoded base default in cvsup(1) is /usr/local/etc/cvsup, but that is probably the most logical place to put supfiles (logical as in "the place someone else might actually find them"). -- Crist J. Clark | cjclark@alum.mit.edu | cjclark@jhu.edu http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ | cjc@freebsd.org