Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1999 13:44:51 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> To: "David E. O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/chown Makefile Message-ID: <40554.945171891@axl.noc.iafrica.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 13 Dec 1999 20:48:17 PST." <199912140448.UAA65838@freefall.freebsd.org>
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On Mon, 13 Dec 1999 20:48:17 PST, "David E. O'Brien" wrote: > 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. Perhaps, but chown isn't needed to get a device node, since chown errors are not fatal in MAKEDEV. I've discussed this publically with the originators of at least two PR's. If that was your only reason for doing this, I'd say you're wasting time with it. In the grand scheme of things, it doesn't really matter (you've just introduced some mess, nothing more) but I should be very careful about doing more of these. Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the messagehelp
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