Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 09:58:19 +0800 From: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> To: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@cup.hp.com> Cc: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/emulators/linux_base Makefile Message-ID: <20000218015819.25A8D1CD7@overcee.netplex.com.au> In-Reply-To: Message from Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@cup.hp.com> of "Fri, 18 Feb 2000 01:48:44 GMT." <38ACA4FC.583E94E9@cup.hp.com>
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Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > 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). Yes, I have seen this on fresh installs. /usr/compat seems to be the default for new installs, but it hasn't always been that way and isn't required to be like that. Cheers, -Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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