From owner-cvs-all Thu Feb 17 17:49:28 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from palrel1.hp.com (palrel1.hp.com [156.153.255.242]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D151437B904; Thu, 17 Feb 2000 17:49:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcel@cup.hp.com) Received: from adlmail.cup.hp.com (adlmail.cup.hp.com [15.0.100.30]) by palrel1.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E38C7BD; Thu, 17 Feb 2000 17:49:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from cup.hp.com (gauss.cup.hp.com [15.28.97.152]) by adlmail.cup.hp.com with ESMTP (8.8.6 (PHNE_17135)/8.7.3 TIS 5.0.1) id RAA25122; Thu, 17 Feb 2000 17:48:50 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <38ACA4FC.583E94E9@cup.hp.com> Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 01:48:44 +0000 From: Marcel Moolenaar Organization: Hewlett-Packard X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.0.36 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Garrett Wollman Cc: Peter Wemm , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/emulators/linux_base Makefile References: <20000218013442.4EF791CD7@overcee.netplex.com.au> <200002180141.UAA83816@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Garrett Wollman wrote: > > The difficulty, if I understand the context at all, is: what happens > when a new user installs emulator ports from sysinstall? (I can tell > you the answer without even trying: it falls over after she fills up > the root partition.) I don't think so, because AFAICT /compat is a link to /usr/compat by default (ie at install time). > So, while I agree that David's solution is not the correct one, I > would also suggest that something needs to be done to solve the > problem. (I.e., we should install a /compat symlink to *somewhere* by > default.) This is already the case (again, AFAICT). -- Marcel Moolenaar mail: marcel@cup.hp.com / marcel@FreeBSD.org tel: (408) 447-4222 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message