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From: Warner Losh <imp@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


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