From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 10 18:37:10 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 155AB16A53E for ; Sat, 10 Jun 2006 18:37:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cperciva@freebsd.org) Received: from pd5mo2so.prod.shaw.ca (shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4216477D6 for ; Sat, 10 Jun 2006 12:54:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cperciva@freebsd.org) Received: from pd2mr1so.prod.shaw.ca (pd2mr1so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.110]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0J0N006F1AIPK280@l-daemon> for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Sat, 10 Jun 2006 06:54:25 -0600 (MDT) Received: from pn2ml6so.prod.shaw.ca ([10.0.121.150]) by pd2mr1so.prod.shaw.ca (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0J0N00EFAAIP62A0@pd2mr1so.prod.shaw.ca> for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Sat, 10 Jun 2006 06:54:25 -0600 (MDT) Received: from hexahedron.daemonology.net ([24.82.18.31]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with SMTP id <0J0N00ATBAIOPCD0@l-daemon> for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Sat, 10 Jun 2006 06:54:25 -0600 (MDT) Received: (qmail 52843 invoked from network); Sat, 10 Jun 2006 12:54:24 +0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?127.0.0.1?) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; Sat, 10 Jun 2006 12:54:24 +0000 Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2006 05:54:23 -0700 From: Colin Percival To: FreeBSD Current Message-id: <448AC0FF.5060804@freebsd.org> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20060416) Subject: /usr/obj and releases X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2006 18:37:10 -0000 In src/etc/mtree/BSD.usr.dist, it says that /usr/obj should exist: 41 obj nochange However, in src/release/Makefile, the doTARBALL specifically avoids putting /usr/obj into a tarball, with the result that it will not be extracted during release installation: 1114 tar --exclude CVS --exclude obj --exclude BOOTMFS -cf - ${ARG} | \ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ This discrepancy has existed since March 1995, so I'm guessing that it isn't a mistake -- but can someone explain the reason for this? Colin Percival