Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 09:28:41 -0500 From: Scot Hetzel <swhetzel@gmail.com> To: Joel <rees@ddcom.co.jp> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: merging locale stuff in mtree? Message-ID: <790a9fff05041507287212fbbb@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20050415214645.E8AC.REES@ddcom.co.jp> References: <20050415214645.E8AC.REES@ddcom.co.jp>
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On 4/15/05, Joel <rees@ddcom.co.jp> wrote: > Just finished rebuilding and installing the world and the kernel by the > "canonical" method. >=20 > In using mergemaster, I find myself puzzled by the locale stuff in mtree. > I have not installed a lot of locales, haven't even started X11 at all > yet, but the updates seem to want to put a lot of stuff about locales in > BSD.X11-4.dist and BSD.local.dist. Is all that locale stuff necessary > there if you haven't installed all those locales? >=20 The locale stuff in the BSD.*.dist files is used to create standard directories and permissions. This way when you install a port/package it doesn't need to create the missing locale directories, instead mtree will create them. > (I tried to merge BSD.local.dist, and I think I botched it.) >=20 Just copy the src/etc/mtree/BSD.local.dist to /etc/mtree to fix it. > I'm not really clear on what mtree does, in case that isn't obvious. > Search the web only turned up stuff about an alternative to tripwire, > but I suppose it might be mergemaster's db configuration? (Scanned man > on mtree and /usr/src/etc/mtree/README, but it hasn't sunk it yet.) >=20 mtree is used to create standard permissions (directories and files) and default directories that should exist.
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