Date: Thu, 02 Apr 1998 17:49:18 +0200 From: "Jose M. Alcaide" <jose@we.lc.ehu.es> To: Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm@physik.fu-berlin.de> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sysinstall (was Re: Upgrading /stand) Message-ID: <3523B37E.77274BA9@we.lc.ehu.es> References: <199804021514.RAA21823@oberon.physik.fu-berlin.de>
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Axel Thimm wrote: > > As I understand /stand is considered as "install time only" > directory. But sysinstall should be an administration tool also, just like > e.g. adduser. I agree. > > Couldn't sysinstall have two modes of being build and installed? > 1) like it is now (crunched with the other executables in to /stand) with > `make release' > 2) ... and a stand alone version (only the sysinstall executable), which > installs under /usr/sbin/sysinstall (with bin distribution and `make > world'). The help files should probably go under /usr/share/sysinstall > I think that sysinstall should be a static executable, placed in /sbin. In this way, it could be used without the /usr filesystem for doing some tasks. -- JM ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Jose M. Alcaide | mailto:jose@we.lc.ehu.es Universidad del Pais Vasco | http://www.we.lc.ehu.es/~jose Dpto. de Electricidad y Electronica | Facultad de Ciencias - Campus de Lejona | Tel.: +34-4-4647700 x2624 48940 Lejona (Vizcaya) - SPAIN | Fax: +34-4-4858139 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "Go ahead... make my day." - H. Callahan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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