From owner-cvs-all Thu Feb 17 17:58:39 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from overcee.netplex.com.au (overcee.netplex.com.au [202.12.86.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F36C637B8ED; Thu, 17 Feb 2000 17:58:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@netplex.com.au) Received: from netplex.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by overcee.netplex.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25A8D1CD7; Fri, 18 Feb 2000 09:58:19 +0800 (WST) (envelope-from peter@netplex.com.au) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Marcel Moolenaar Cc: Garrett Wollman , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/emulators/linux_base Makefile In-Reply-To: Message from Marcel Moolenaar of "Fri, 18 Feb 2000 01:48:44 GMT." <38ACA4FC.583E94E9@cup.hp.com> Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 09:58:19 +0800 From: Peter Wemm Message-Id: <20000218015819.25A8D1CD7@overcee.netplex.com.au> Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk 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