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From: Makoto MATSUSHITA <matusita@jp.freebsd.org>
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Subject: Re: ** HEADS UP **  chown&chgrp moved again
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 09:26:52 +0900
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obrien> A while back I moved the install location for chown and chgrp
obrien> from /usr/sbin and /usr/bin to /sbin and /bin.  This was
obrien> because of MAKEDEV(8)'s dependence on them, and thus forced
obrien> /usr to be mounted for correct operation of MAKEDEV(8).

But MAKEDEV(8) still depends on mknod(8), so this change would be a
"make release" breaker.

In older environment, mknod(8) does not understand the new
command-line syntax; it would be impossible to build today's -current
in -stable or whatever version of -current before this change.

Yes, it's easy to fix by "cd /usr/src/sbin/mknod; make; make install"
before doing a release engineering, but it is too tricky, isn't it ?

-- -
Makoto `MAR' MATSUSHITA


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