Date: Fri, 09 May 2003 00:41:59 -0600 (MDT) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /rescue Message-ID: <20030509.004159.108785388.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <20030509063400.GB16323@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <20030508183612.GA56264@dragon.nuxi.com> <20030508.124451.109704557.imp@bsdimp.com> <20030509063400.GB16323@dragon.nuxi.com>
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"David O'Brien" <arch@freebsd.org> writes:
: On Thu, May 08, 2003 at 12:44:51PM -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote:
: > : > : Actually, Tim's and my work are complimentary. I hadn't worked on
: > : > : getting a /rescue, /stand, /ohcrap directory. Personally, I agree
: > : > : with David O'Brien that it should be called /stand since we have
: > : > : precedence (and documentation in hier(7)) for that.
: > : >
: > : > NetBSD put them in /rescue. /stand has been phased out over the past
: > : > few years. There's precident many ways.
: > :
: > : How has it been phased out?? My 5.0-RELEASE install certainly has a
: > : /stand with the contents of:
: >
: > /stand never is updated after the initial install, so it slowly rots
: > away :-(
:
: and 'make world' can update it. Or will we have /resuce that is never
: updated by 'make world'?
/rescue would be updated every time.
Warner
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