tech-userlevel: Re: moving etc/release from etc to base set

Subject: Re: moving etc/release from etc to base set
To: Hubert Feyrer <hubert@feyrer.de>
From: Luke Mewburn <lukem@NetBSD.org>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 09/04/2004 10:21:09

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On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 12:15:53PM +0200, Hubert Feyrer wrote:
 | On Thu, 2 Sep 2004, Luke Mewburn wrote:
 | > I've considered that a reasonable solution to this is to move
 | > /etc/release from the `etc' set to the `base' set.
 | > This would go against our prior art of not having /etc/ files
 | > in base, but in this case I think that this would be a useful change
 | > and I can't think of any problems with this.
 | >
 | > Any comments/objections?
 |=20
 | Sounds good - etc/release is basically a "checksum" of the userland
 | binaries.
 |=20
 | It would still be nice to have that file updated by "build.sh install=
=3D...)
 | though.
If it is part of the base set, it would be installed by "build.sh install=
=3D",
since that operation copies the base set (and comp, games, man, misc, text,
=2E..). I.e., there would be no need to provide special support to copy
etc/release in the "install=3D" operation.
Cheers,
Luke.
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