Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 14:32:11 -1000 (HST) From: Vincent Poy <vince@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET> To: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: /bin and /sbin are now dynamically linked Message-ID: <20040216143020.M8264-100000@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET> In-Reply-To: <20031116051028.GA30485@roark.gnf.org>
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Hello everyone: I'm still using a Pre-November 15, 2003 -CURRENT and had a question before I upgrade. With this change, is /bin and /sbin still separate directories on new installs or are they linked directories? Do I have to delete the /bin, /sbin contents prior to the buildworld or will it just update itself? Thanks. Cheers, Vince - vince@WURLDLINK.NET - Vice President ________ __ ____ Unix Networking Operations - FreeBSD-Real Unix for Free / / / / | / |[__ ] WurldLink Corporation / / / / | / | __] ] San Francisco - Honolulu - Hong Kong / / / / / |/ / | __] ] HongKong Stars/Gravis UltraSound Mailing Lists Admin /_/_/_/_/|___/|_|[____] Almighty1@IRC - oahu.DAL.NET Hawaii's DALnet IRC Network Server Admin On Sat, 15 Nov 2003, Gordon Tetlow wrote: > I just committed a patch to change /bin and /sbin from statically to > dynamically linked. If you don't like the idea of using a dynamically > linked /bin and /sbin, now is the time to define NO_DYNAMICROOT in your > make.conf. > > The reasons for doing so have been hashed over lots of times. But the > short of it: > > 1) Much smaller /bin and /sbin. On i386, /bin and /sbin are 33 MB static. > Dynamically linked, they are only 4 MB. > 2) Proper support for NSS. This will finally allow you to use NSS modules > and get things like usernames in ls -l working for modules that are > dynamically loaded. > > -gordon
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