Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 21:58:40 -0800 (PST) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> To: msmith@FreeBSD.org (Mike Smith) Cc: obrien@FreeBSD.org (David E. O'Brien), cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/chown Makefile Message-ID: <199912140558.VAA18012@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> In-Reply-To: <199912140554.VAA00798@mass.cdrom.com> from Mike Smith at "Dec 13, 1999 09:54:08 pm"
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> > > obrien 1999/12/13 20:48:17 PST > > > > > > Modified files: > > > usr.sbin/chown Makefile > > > Log: > > > Install `chown' into /sbin rather than /usr/sbin as `chown' is needed by > > > `MAKEDEV'. And one might need to `MAKEDEV' inorder to get a device node > > > in order to mount /usr from. > > > > The sources need repo moved from usr.sbin to sbin and this change ripped > > out. > > That's debatable. We didn't do this with sysctl either. It is not debatable, it is the law of the layout of /usr/src, has been for the 9 years of FreeBSD and another 10 at UCB before that. If someone got away with this on sysctl thier hands should be slapped and the error corrected, but no one got away with that: :r !whereis sysctl sysctl: /sbin/sysctl /usr/share/man/man8/sysctl.8.gz /usr/src/sbin/sysctl And unless he added the correct ld options to build this static it's not going to do the job without /usr/lib: /usr/sbin/chown: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (FreeBSD), dynamically linked, stripped Furthermore it's general policy to at least discuss this for a day to give others a chance to give input rather than go do it 15 minutes after someone suggests it just because one happens to agree with the idea, and one or two others have as well. I didn't even get through my last hours of incoming mail and it went from suggestion to commit. -- Rod Grimes - KD7CAX @ CN85sl - (RWG25) rgrimes@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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