Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 08:42:33 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> Cc: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bin/18312: FreeBSD System Recovery -- mt not statically linked Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10005080840141.23761-100000@semuta.feral.com> In-Reply-To: <61326.957793693@axl.ops.uunet.co.za>
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On Mon, 8 May 2000, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > > On Fri, 05 May 2000 11:16:29 MST, Matthew Dillon wrote: > > > There's not much point statically linking mt if it's sitting in > > /usr/bin. On the face of it it does seem a good candidate to move > > to /bin. > > Given that having things move around in the base system carries with it > varying degrees of pain, can you guys just explain why this is actually > necessary? Didn't someone point out a way to use restore in the absence > of mt? Yes, that was me. But maybe they're /usr that they want to restore isn't in dump(8) format. I dunno- this is why I asked. It seems to me on the face of it a reasonable thing to have- basic device manipulation available w/o /usr. But there's no particular end to the number of things you *could* want to be availble if someone takes a Mossberger to your /usr. So, I'm of two minds about this. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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