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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc/mtree BSD.include.dist
In-Reply-To: <199706042225.PAA07945@freefall.freebsd.org> from "Andrey A. Chernov" at "Jun 4, 97 03:25:31 pm"
To: ache@FreeBSD.ORG (Andrey A. Chernov)
Date: Wed, 4 Jun 1997 16:19:41 -0700 (PDT)
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> ache        1997/06/04 15:25:31 PDT
> 
>   Modified files:
>     etc/mtree            BSD.include.dist 
>   Log:
>   Remove directories belongs to /usr/src to stop mtree to modify /usr/src
>   permissions.
>   Having them here is wrong from several other poins too:
>   they are never be a directories (simlinks only), so why give a chance to mtree to make
>   them as directories?

They are not _always_ symlinks, esp. for systems without
/usr/src that have been built with SHARED=copies (see
/usr/src/include/Makefile for what that does).



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