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Date:      Mon, 13 Dec 1999 22:28:07 -0800 (PST)
From:      "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
To:        freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net (Rodney W. Grimes)
Cc:        obrien@NUXI.com, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/chown Makefile
Message-ID:  <199912140628.WAA18093@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
In-Reply-To: <199912140617.WAA18057@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> from "Rodney W. Grimes" at "Dec 13, 1999 10:17:50 pm"

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> > On Mon, Dec 13, 1999 at 09:48:55PM -0800, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
> > > >   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.
> > 
> > Yes.  Patience.  First put the change in usr.sbin/chown/ so it is
> > documented by someone looking there.  Then repo move it to sbin/chown/
> > and clean up the Makefile.  This was how we did usr.sbin/sysctl/ ->
> > sbin/sysctl/ .
> 
> And now that I went digging your going to find that chown/chgrp is not
> the only thing missing to run MAKEDEV.
> 
> printf is _NOT_ a borne shell builtin, so you'll also need /usr/bin/printf,
> used extensivly in MAKEDEV.
> 
> Might I suggest you backthis out (as it creates the mess of folks having
> to remeber to rm /usr/sbin/chown) until you have a _COMPLETE_ set of
> patches that makes /dev/MAKEDEV run without /usr, and have tested that
> set of _COMPLETE_ patches.

Add awk to that list.... ohhh.. boy... don't even look at ttyR?, you'll
need grep and jot, also /tmp must be mounted writable.

-- 
Rod Grimes - KD7CAX @ CN85sl - (RWG25)               rgrimes@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net


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