From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Jul 7 12: 3: 7 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2208137B400 for ; Sun, 7 Jul 2002 12:03:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail-relay1.yahoo.com (mail-relay1.yahoo.com [216.145.48.34]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6F4643E52 for ; Sun, 7 Jul 2002 12:03:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@FreeBSD.org) Received: from FreeBSD.org (12-234-90-219.client.attbi.com [12.234.90.219]) by mail-relay1.yahoo.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98B478B5CC; Sun, 7 Jul 2002 12:03:02 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3D289066.F5FBB2D7@FreeBSD.org> Date: Sun, 07 Jul 2002 12:03:02 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Geraint A Edwards Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sysinstall hard links References: <20020707134417.GA18082@cymru.serf.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Geraint A Edwards wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm fairly new to the world of upgrading, but (I think) I have > noticed something odd (though, I'm not sure if it's significant). > > On a handful of occasions, I've followed the handbook to upgrade > to STABLE, even to the later point (after 'make installworld' > and 'mergemaster') of > cd /usr/src/release/sysinstall > make all install > but have noticed that the contents of /stand is not what I > expected: all files hard linked to the same binary: Ok, this is going to sound harsh, but I don't intend it that way. A) This question is for -questions, not -stable. B) This topic is covered at great length in the mail archives. Please learn how to use them, and try them first before posting a question to the list. C) Hint: What you're describing is by design, and /stand is not updated as part of the make {build|install}world process. Good luck, Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message