From owner-freebsd-bugs Wed Mar 19 00:00:08 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA10701 for bugs-outgoing; Wed, 19 Mar 1997 00:00:08 -0800 (PST) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA10663; Wed, 19 Mar 1997 00:00:04 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 19 Mar 1997 00:00:04 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199703190800.AAA10663@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs Cc: From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Subject: Re: conf/3031: 'cd /usr/src ; make reinstall' doesn't update /stand Reply-To: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Sender: owner-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)