Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 17:40:23 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@cup.hp.com> Cc: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>, "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.osd.bsdi.com>, Will Andrews <andrews@technologist.com>, Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc Makefile src/include Makefile src/release Makefile src/release/picobsd/build Makefile.mfs src/release/picobsd/custom Makefile.mfs src/release/picobsd/dial Makefile.mfs src/release/picobsd/install Makefile.mfs Message-ID: <200007252340.RAA24778@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 25 Jul 2000 16:37:13 PDT." <397E24A9.81AA57BA@cup.hp.com> References: <397E24A9.81AA57BA@cup.hp.com> <200007252213.PAA34677@netplex.com.au> <200007252322.RAA24596@harmony.village.org>
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In message <397E24A9.81AA57BA@cup.hp.com> Marcel Moolenaar writes: : Andrey changed the default and provided a -L switch. Nothing wrong with : that. Why *exactly* do we need the build system to use FTS_LOGICAL : instead of the mtree-default? I guess I'm confused, why having a default : of FTS_PHYSICAL is ok, except for the build process... Andrey has explained this, but here goes again. The problem is that if you have a symbolic link for things like /tmp, /var/tmp, /var/mail, etc then without -L you'd continue to have insecure permissions if you botched the initial install. It is a relatively weak reason, but an important one for those that need it. I don't think there's any reason to not ptu Andrey's changes back in as well as allowing a MTREE_FLAGS (or whatever the standard is) knob in /etc/make.conf plus some other places to allow those that need it or want it to still have it. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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