From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jan 12 16:38:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mass.cdrom.com (mass.cdrom.com [204.216.28.184]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F58A15099; Wed, 12 Jan 2000 16:38:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Received: from mass.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA01937; Wed, 12 Jan 2000 16:44:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <200001130044.QAA01937@mass.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Makoto MATSUSHITA Cc: current@freebsd.org, obrien@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ** HEADS UP ** chown&chgrp moved again In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 13 Jan 2000 09:26:52 +0900." <20000113092652F.matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 16:44:54 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 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 ? A release build requires a complete "make buildworld" of the relevant world to have been completed before starting. As long as 'make buildworld' for -current works on -stable, the release will work. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message