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From: Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org>
To: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>
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Subject: Re: Switching /etc/*.db from bdb to tinycdb
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On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 05:51:46PM -0700, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> Hi,
>=20
> Which .db files are you proposing modifying in a cross-build
> environment, rather than having a local tool generate them?
>=20
> (I do cross-builds all the time. I re-generate the .db files in /etc
> in startup scripts on my devices..)

While that's often a useful model, it seems to me that we'd prefer to be
able to generate .db files for use on readonly root file systems.  Sure
we've go tricks to work around that, but if we can avoid them that's all
to the good.

-- Brooks

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