From owner-freebsd-bugs Tue Jun 27 01:40:31 1995 Return-Path: bugs-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id BAA16301 for bugs-outgoing; Tue, 27 Jun 1995 01:40:31 -0700 Received: from silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU (silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU [136.152.64.181]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id BAA16290 for ; Tue, 27 Jun 1995 01:40:25 -0700 Received: (from asami@localhost) by silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.11/8.6.9) id BAA01289; Tue, 27 Jun 1995 01:40:19 -0700 Date: Tue, 27 Jun 1995 01:40:19 -0700 Message-Id: <199506270840.BAA01289@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> To: gordon@sneaky.lonestar.org CC: bugs@freebsd.org In-reply-to: (gordon@sneaky.lonestar.org) Subject: Re: 2.0.5 install fails to create directories under /usr/local From: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) Sender: bugs-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk * Problem: Installation doesn't create any of the subdirectories * under /usr/local, such as /usr/local/man/man[1-8], as specified * in /etc/mtree/BSD.local. (It isn't considered strange or unusual This is intentional. How you organize /usr/local is totally up to you, and it was agreed upon (a long time ago, I've heard) that we ship the operating system with /usr/local empty. However, when you show the slightest hint of your intention of using /usr/local the way we thought you might, i.e., by typing "make install" in one of the /usr/ports subdirectories that install things in /usr/local, or use "pkg_add" or "pkg_manage" to add a package that puts things in /usr/local, you'll hear a big !BAM! and it will be populated with all the "regular" directories (as specified in BSD.local.dist) as fast as you can say "wow". :) Satoshi