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Date:      Mon, 16 Feb 2004 20:12:19 -0500
From:      Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
To:        Vincent Poy <vince@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET>, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: HEADS UP: /bin and /sbin are now dynamically linked
Message-ID:  <p06020423bc571a3d4baf@[128.113.24.47]>
In-Reply-To: <20040216143020.M8264-100000@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET>
References:  <20040216143020.M8264-100000@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET>

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At 2:32 PM -1000 2/16/04, Vincent Poy wrote:
>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?

They are still separate directories.

>Do I have to delete the /bin, /sbin contents prior to the
>buildworld or will it just update itself?  Thanks.

Anytime that special-measures are needed for an update, they will
be written up in /usr/src/UPDATING .  Always read through the
most recent entries in that file doing an system update.

To answer this specific question, no, you do not want to delete
those directories before doing the 'make buildworld'.

-- 
Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer           or  gad@freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih@rpi.edu



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