From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jan 11 11: 9:57 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mailhost01.reflexnet.net (mailhost01.reflexnet.net [64.6.192.82]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A0C137B69C; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 11:09:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from rfx-64-6-211-149.users.reflexcom.com ([64.6.211.149]) by mailhost01.reflexnet.net with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.197.19); Thu, 11 Jan 2001 11:07:18 -0800 Received: (from cjc@localhost) by rfx-64-6-211-149.users.reflexcom.com (8.11.1/8.11.0) id f0BJ93090368; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 11:09:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 11:09:03 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: John Baldwin Cc: Jordan Hubbard , current@FreeBSD.org, stable@FreeBSD.org, cjclark@alum.mit.edu, bmah@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: sysinstall.8 Breaking buildworld Message-ID: <20010111110903.B90221@rfx-64-6-211-149.users.reflexco> Reply-To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu References: <18455.979234814@winston.osd.bsdi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from jhb@FreeBSD.org on Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 10:53:43AM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 10:53:43AM -0800, John Baldwin wrote: > > On 11-Jan-01 Jordan Hubbard wrote: > >> My personal opinion is that sysinstall.8 is a part of the base system > >> and shouldn't be optional. If we take your suggestion, it means that > >> installworld will sometimes install this manpage and sometimes it won't. > > > > I think we should simply move the stupid man page into man8. It's a bit > > weird to have a man page and its utility live in seperate places, but > > the release/ directory in the hierarchy has always been a red-headed > > stepchild in any case. If I had it to do over, it would have all gone > > into /usr/src/sbin somewhere. > > Let's put sysinstall back in sbin/ then. It _used_ to live there until someone > moved it. :) > > -r--r--r-- 1 root src 62356 Dec 30 1995 > /usr/cvs/src/sbin/sysinstall/Attic/sysinstall.c,v I had assumed that sysinstall was not part of the standard installworld for recovery purposes. That is, if a buildworld-installworld were to totally hose your system (but of course that _never_ happens), you would still have a reliable /stand/sysinstall uncorrupted by the errant installworld to aid in fixing things. Again, this is just what I assumed the reason for the design to be. And I have never actually used sysinstall to recover a hosed upgrade, I like the fixit.flp. But IMHO, either both /stand/sysinstall and sysinstall.8 get installed when building world or neither do. To me, that seems clear cut. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message