From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 19 9:27:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-31-203-60.mmcable.com [65.31.203.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F086D37B419 for ; Mon, 19 Nov 2001 09:27:17 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 58511 invoked by uid 100); 19 Nov 2001 17:27:23 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15353.16635.475611.694378@guru.mired.org> Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 11:27:23 -0600 To: "Patrick O'Reilly" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ? - /usr/obj contains symlink to /usr/src In-Reply-To: <122558595@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Patrick O'Reilly types: > Is this a problem or not? > I have had a few strange errors with my latest cvsup and make buildworld. I > went browsing the tree in /usr/obj and found this: > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > root carrot:/usr/local/etc/cvsup# ls -al /usr/obj/usr/src/i386 > total 3 > drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 512 Nov 16 16:33 . > drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 512 Nov 16 16:33 .. > lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 12 Nov 16 16:33 sys -> /usr/src/sys > drwxr-xr-x 11 root wheel 512 Nov 16 16:33 usr > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > Is this correct? I thought the /usr/obj tree was supposed to be an > independent temporary workspace in which the world is built before being > installed. But this symlink makes me worry that some updates might pollute > the live tree during building? Looks right to me. If they need a tree they aren't going to write to, pulling it in with a symlink seems like a good idea. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Q: How do you make the gods laugh? A: Tell them your plans. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message