Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2016 19:54:27 -0700 From: Mark Millard <markmi@dsl-only.net> To: freebsd-arm <freebsd-arm@freebsd.org>, gjb@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD user home directory Message-ID: <79BCA7CB-4D6A-45AF-8432-FD7F8577B42F@dsl-only.net>
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Looking at my armv6 and amd64 11.0's (long in use, originally -CURRENT, = now -STABLE, maintained via source updates): amd64 and armv6 (rpi2) both have real /usr/home directories. armv6 (and rpi2) has no /home path established at all, not even as a = symbolic link to elsewhere. amd64 has /home -> usr/home via a symbolic link. (I do not have access to check my memory and will not for weeks but if I = remember right my powerpc64 and powerpc 11.0's were like amd64 above. = They dated back to somewhat before 2016-June-04 when last updated.) If I remember right my old powerpc and powerpc 10.x-STABLE's and = 10.x-RELEASES also agreed with amd64 above. (At the time I only was = experimenting with powerpc64 and powerpc FreeBSD.) In comparison today's -r303119 says: > Log: > Create a /usr/home -> /home symlink for the arm images to > avoid /usr/home confusingly being created as a directory. May be which path is to directly be the actual directory by default has = changed --since all of my contexts started long ago. But what all my confirmable examples suggest is that /usr/home is = normally the directory. I did not manually control or create /usr/home for any of the contexts = as far as I can remember. It was automatic as a side effect of some = activity. If there is variability up to now or across architectures it might be = appropriate to have an UPDATING entry to indicate the new uniform answer = or whatever describes how things now are. Are there alternative standard FreeBSD installation techniques that may = be should all be made to match for such properties? (POLA for such = defaults: lack of variability across [the major or official] = techniques?) =3D=3D=3D Mark Millard markmi at dsl-only.net
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