Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 20:10:04 +0200 From: Oliver Eikemeier <eikemeier@fillmore-labs.com> To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: Oliver Eikemeier <eik@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/md5 Makefile md5.1 md5.c Message-ID: <90828145-BBD2-11D8-B633-00039312D914@fillmore-labs.com> In-Reply-To: <p06020456bcefa1a18500@[128.113.24.47]>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Garance A Drosihn wrote: > At 4:07 PM +0000 6/11/04, Oliver Eikemeier wrote: >> [...] >> Add sha1 and rmd160 checksum tools. >> >> Since the algorithms are already supported in libmd, >> the size increase is small when a dynamic root is used. >> >> Approved by: joerg, ru >> MFC after: 2 weeks > > For 4.x-stable, root is still statically-linked, right? Do > we want to MFC it for that? Or will it cause too much of a > size increase? It will have more impact on 4.x, but not so much that it will cause problems until 4.x goes away. The design decision came from the consideration whether it is worth to write another tool or probably move md5 from /sbin to /usr/bin. Since this is a good solution for -CURRENT, it would only matter for -STABLE when md5 where part of the installation tools, which afaik it is not. -Oliver
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?90828145-BBD2-11D8-B633-00039312D914>