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Date:      Mon, 5 Feb 96 18:18:43 MET
From:      Greg Lehey <lehey.pad@sni.de>
To:        joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org (Hackers; FreeBSD)
Subject:   Re: Q: why install -d dir missing ?
Message-ID:  <199602051722.SAA12423@nixpbe.pdb.sni.de>
In-Reply-To: <199602031524.QAA11526@uriah.heep.sax.de>; from "J Wunsch" at Feb 3, 96 4:24 pm

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> As haury@sagem.fr wrote:
>>
>> I am wondering why the well known option '-d' is missing in current install
>> program. Since I am a newbie in FreeBSD, I hope it's not an old war :-)
>
> It is. :-)
>
> Directories are to be created via the /etc/mtrees/* templates, not via
> some hack in install(1).

OK, let me open up old wounds.  What does /etc/mtrees have to do with
the latest version of xfoo that I found on the net?  Unfortunately,
xfoo's Makefile uses install -d.

Greg




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