Date: Wed, 19 Mar 1997 00:00:04 -0800 (PST) From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-bugs Subject: Re: conf/3031: 'cd /usr/src ; make reinstall' doesn't update /stand Message-ID: <199703190800.AAA10663@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR conf/3031; it has been noted by GNATS. From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: ahd@kew.com Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: Re: conf/3031: 'cd /usr/src ; make reinstall' doesn't update /stand Date: Wed, 19 Mar 1997 08:42:09 +0100 As Drew Derbyshire wrote: > If the target system is regenerated from a friendly > NFS mounted source, /stand is not regenerated. This > leads to problems in particular if the wrong version > of sysinstall is run on the new system. /stand is never reinstalled, NFS or not, there isn't even a source directory for it. It should not be rebuilt either, it's merely a bootstrapping aid by the installation tools. sysadm (the post-installation sysinstall) doesn't belong into /stand, it rather belongs into /usr/sbin, and it should be kept as a regular shared linked binary there, as opposed to a multi-megabyte blurb containing the kitchensink and all. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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