From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Apr 2 07:14:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA23806 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Thu, 2 Apr 1998 07:14:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from axp5.physik.fu-berlin.de (axp5.physik.fu-berlin.de [160.45.34.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA23739 for ; Thu, 2 Apr 1998 07:14:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from thimm@oberon.physik.fu-berlin.de) Received: from oberon.physik.fu-berlin.de (oberon.physik.fu-berlin.de [160.45.33.83]) by axp5.physik.fu-berlin.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA13726; Thu, 2 Apr 1998 17:14:23 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from thimm@localhost) by oberon.physik.fu-berlin.de (8.8.5/8.7.1) id RAA21823; Thu, 2 Apr 1998 17:14:16 +0200 (MET DST) From: Axel Thimm Message-Id: <199804021514.RAA21823@oberon.physik.fu-berlin.de> Subject: sysinstall (was Re: Upgrading /stand) In-Reply-To: <28394.891444051@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Apr 1, 98 07:20:51 am" To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Thu, 2 Apr 1998 17:14:16 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: Axel.Thimm@physik.fu-berlin.de (Axel Thimm), stable@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: Axel Thimm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Jordan K. Hubbard writes: > > The /stand directory that I have (created after a fresh install > > of FreeBSD 2.2.1 about a year ago) has 19 hard links to the same file. > > Right, and only one of them (sysinstall) is really necessary for > post-installation configuration. [...] As I understand /stand is considered as "install time only" directory. But sysinstall should be an administration tool also, just like e.g. adduser. Couldn't sysinstall have two modes of being build and installed? 1) like it is now (crunched with the other executables in to /stand) with `make release' 2) ... and a stand alone version (only the sysinstall executable), which installs under /usr/sbin/sysinstall (with bin distribution and `make world'). The help files should probably go under /usr/share/sysinstall This would prevent -stable and -current users from "forgetting" to keep sysinstall up to date. In the long run, I'd propose to even automaticaly remove /stand after installation (i.e. to consider /stand as a temporary fast-to-read-off floppy image). Regards, Axel. -- Axel Thimm Axel.Thimm@physik.fu-berlin.de Axel.Thimm@ifh.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message