From owner-freebsd-current Sun Aug 3 12:31:31 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA11044 for current-outgoing; Sun, 3 Aug 1997 12:31:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from time.cdrom.com (root@time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA11039 for ; Sun, 3 Aug 1997 12:31:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from time.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.6/8.6.9) with ESMTP id MAA03130; Sun, 3 Aug 1997 12:30:23 -0700 (PDT) To: Andreas Klemm cc: David Nugent , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ports-current/packages-current discontinued In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 03 Aug 1997 16:44:11 +0200." <19970803164411.01427@klemm.gtn.com> Date: Sun, 03 Aug 1997 12:30:23 -0700 Message-ID: <3126.870636623@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > I suggest that sysinstall and the release tools do not belong > > under src/ in the repository. They belong in a separate place, > ... > Good idea ! Actually not. It's my intention that the release tools become less intrinsically "release tools" and more "system management tools", no different than utilities like ncrcontrol or tzsetup. This would hinder my ability to update setup in such a way that the next world build for somebody would update it. Having stale copies of sysinstall around in /stand has caused no end of trouble for people, and whereas I can at least now tell them to "cd /usr/src/release/sysinstall && make all install" to update these bits, I would have to add an extra step telling them how to cvsup this special release collection and how to build it. I'm already starting to get complaints about our splitting doc into its own subtree, and that's *docs*, not software which can potentially cause serious problems for you (I anticipate a few bugs in setup along the way ;-) if you have out-of-date versions. Jordan