From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Apr 2 07:59:09 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA04081 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Thu, 2 Apr 1998 07:59:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from polaris.we.lc.ehu.es (polaris.we.lc.ehu.es [158.227.6.43]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id HAA04008 for ; Thu, 2 Apr 1998 07:58:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jose@we.lc.ehu.es) Received: from we.lc.ehu.es by polaris.we.lc.ehu.es (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id RAA20526; Thu, 2 Apr 1998 17:49:21 +0200 Message-ID: <3523B37E.77274BA9@we.lc.ehu.es> Date: Thu, 02 Apr 1998 17:49:18 +0200 From: "Jose M. Alcaide" Organization: Universidad del País Vasco - Dep. de Electricidad y Electrónica X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4u) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Axel Thimm CC: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sysinstall (was Re: Upgrading /stand) References: <199804021514.RAA21823@oberon.physik.fu-berlin.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Axel Thimm wrote: > > As I understand /stand is considered as "install time only" > directory. But sysinstall should be an administration tool also, just like > e.g. adduser. I agree. > > 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 > I think that sysinstall should be a static executable, placed in /sbin. In this way, it could be used without the /usr filesystem for doing some tasks. -- JM ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Jose M. Alcaide | mailto:jose@we.lc.ehu.es Universidad del Pais Vasco | http://www.we.lc.ehu.es/~jose Dpto. de Electricidad y Electronica | Facultad de Ciencias - Campus de Lejona | Tel.: +34-4-4647700 x2624 48940 Lejona (Vizcaya) - SPAIN | Fax: +34-4-4858139 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "Go ahead... make my day." - H. Callahan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message