From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Mar 24 16:16:27 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from rwcrmhc54.attbi.com (rwcrmhc54.attbi.com [216.148.227.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B7DD37B417 for ; Sun, 24 Mar 2002 16:16:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from blossom.cjclark.org ([12.234.91.48]) by rwcrmhc54.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020325001623.PVAL1214.rwcrmhc54.attbi.com@blossom.cjclark.org>; Mon, 25 Mar 2002 00:16:23 +0000 Received: (from cjc@localhost) by blossom.cjclark.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g2P0GNe83026; Sun, 24 Mar 2002 16:16:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 16:16:23 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: Randy Bush Cc: Ryan Davis , Dima Dorfman , FreeBSD Stable Subject: Re: mergemaster mtree:No such file or directory Message-ID: <20020324161623.B82944@blossom.cjclark.org> Reply-To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu References: <6E639CB8-3F7E-11D6-B638-0030655293B0@zenspider.com> <20020324154542.B82432@blossom.cjclark.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from randy@psg.com on Sun, Mar 24, 2002 at 03:48:45PM -0800 X-URL: http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Mar 24, 2002 at 03:48:45PM -0800, Randy Bush wrote: > > I think giving mergemaster(8) a PATH that includes all of the tools it > > needs to run is not a lot to ask. > > it would more normal to this over-attenuated hacker to give commands > explicit paths Again, I think this is a bad idea. I see places one might want to take advangate of PATH. Example: You have a computer with two FreeBSD systems living on it. They are different versions. You totally bork one system and boot from the second system to repair the first. The mtree(8) files (or other tools) on the first system (the one being saved) are not compatible with the binaries on the running, recovery system. You can set the PATH as appropriate to run the binaries on the other system (in concert with -m and -D) and repair the messed up system despite incompatibilities. (Sure, you could still have compatibility problems, but this is one place you have the ability to configure it as you wish.) -- Crist J. Clark | cjclark@alum.mit.edu | cjclark@jhu.edu http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ | cjc@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message