From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Mar 12 10: 6:26 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from pc3-cove5-0-cust178.bir.cable.ntl.com (pc3-cove5-0-cust178.bir.cable.ntl.com [213.105.113.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C7AE37B405 for ; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 10:06:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from alpha.private.lan (alpha.private.lan [192.168.0.2]) by pc3-cove5-0-cust178.bir.cable.ntl.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g2CI6KP50558 for ; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 18:06:21 GMT (envelope-from ianjhart@ntlworld.com) Received: from ntlworld.com (alpha.private.lan [192.168.0.2]) (authenticated bits=0) by alpha.private.lan (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g2CI6JDl040932 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5 bits=128 verify=NOT) for ; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 18:06:19 GMT (envelope-from ianjhart@ntlworld.com) X-Authentication-Warning: alpha.private.lan: Host alpha.private.lan [192.168.0.2] claimed to be ntlworld.com Message-ID: <3C8E439A.F6DC338C@ntlworld.com> Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 18:06:18 +0000 From: ian j hart X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /usr/sbin/sysinstall for -stable (cvs commit: src/release/sy References: <200203120130.MAA17703@lightning.itga.com.au> <20020312140950.GB1577@raggedclown.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-milter (http://amavis.org/) X-Filter-Version: 1.8 (alpha.private.lan) Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Cliff Sarginson wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 12:30:40PM +1100, Gregory Bond wrote: > > > It's probably a big POLA issue. :) > > > > Actually, it violated my POLA to discover sysinstall wasn't rebuild during > > buildworld.... > > > Mine too :) > I would have no objections to it being moved. > I am wondering if there are any serious implications of not being able > to run it in single-user with only / mounted. I cannot think of > any... ? > If there are maybe /sbin is the place. > It is going to get moved anyway, might as well do it now. With a big > note in UPDATING of course...and a little script to echo this fact when > you type "./sysinstall" in "/stand" ? Does it run with only / mounted? IIRC it whinges about cons25 of my system, probably because it can't open /etc/termcap -> /usr/share/misc/termcap. Maybe this is a csh "thing". -- ian j hart To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message