In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Randell Jesup
writes:
: A full set of disklabel patches to support MB, GB, KB, %, and *
: (everything not spoken for elsewhere) for sizes (and * for offsets to allow
: disklabel to calculate them for you), etc are in Warner's hands. (I got
: annoyed at it o
"David O'Brien" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 02:38:55PM -0800, John Baldwin wrote:
>> Erm, sysinstall can be used as a replacement for fdisk and disklabel,
>> both of which are in /sbin. In fact, in 4.2 the only tool you can
>> realistically use to splat a virgin disklabel
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "David O'Brien" writes:
: But disklabel/fdisk can't even accept MB's as a unit. Until they grow
: the functionality of the NetBSD and OpenBSD versions of them, sysinstall
: is really the only tolerable disk label manipulation tool our users have.
: This includes tho
Why does sysinstall have to move at all?
Whenever I buildworld/installworld, I always go into release/sysinstall and do a make
all install, as suggested in handbook/makeworld.html
Why can't the man page be included and installed with this?
Bap.
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On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 02:22:23PM -0800, Peter Wemm wrote:
> > I won't argue - move away! Just have one of the CVSmeisters do it as
> > a repo-copy, of course.
>
> We cannot repo-copy it to src/sbin - there is a copy there already. We
> could blow the old one away and lose the history (RELEASE
On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 02:38:55PM -0800, John Baldwin wrote:
> Erm, sysinstall can be used as a replacement for fdisk and disklabel,
> both of which are in /sbin. In fact, in 4.2 the only tool you can
> realistically use to splat a virgin disklabel onto a slice w/o weird
> hoop jumping that isn'
On 11-Jan-01 Crist J. Clark wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 11:52:43AM -0800, John Baldwin wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
>> Erm, many things live in both /stand and other places:
>>
>> > ll /stand/ | wc -l
>> 35
>> > ll /stand/rm /bin/rm
>> -r-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 255736 Jan 9 08:17 /bin/rm
On 11-Jan-01 Ben Smithurst wrote:
> Crist J. Clark wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 11:52:43AM -0800, John Baldwin wrote:
>>
>>> Erm, many things live in both /stand and other places:
>>>
ll /stand/ | wc -l
>>> 35
ll /stand/rm /bin/rm
>>> -r-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 255736
> yeah, but it can be used as many things. If invoked as "rm" sysinstall
> behaves just like the real rm, it happens to be one big binary.
This, however, is merely "post-installation behavior" - if you rebuild
and reinstall sysinstall in order to catch up with a bug fix to it,
however, then this
Jordan Hubbard wrote:
> > Let's put sysinstall back in sbin/ then. It _used_ to live there until som
eo
> ne
> > moved it. :)
>
> I won't argue - move away! Just have one of the CVSmeisters do it as
> a repo-copy, of course.
We cannot repo-copy it to src/sbin - there is a copy there alread
If memory serves me right, Ben Smithurst wrote:
> yeah, but it can be used as many things. If invoked as "rm" sysinstall
> behaves just like the real rm, it happens to be one big binary.
The thing in /stand is a crunchgen(8) binary. sysinstall itself is
(chug, chug) 850K. After being stripped
Crist J. Clark wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 11:52:43AM -0800, John Baldwin wrote:
>
>> Erm, many things live in both /stand and other places:
>>
>>> ll /stand/ | wc -l
>> 35
>>> ll /stand/rm /bin/rm
>> -r-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 255736 Jan 9 08:17 /bin/rm
>> -r-xr-xr-x 31 root wh
On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 11:52:43AM -0800, John Baldwin wrote:
[snip]
> Erm, many things live in both /stand and other places:
>
> > ll /stand/ | wc -l
> 35
> > ll /stand/rm /bin/rm
> -r-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 255736 Jan 9 08:17 /bin/rm
> -r-xr-xr-x 31 root wheel 1729520 Jul 28 07:3
On 11-Jan-01 Crist J. Clark wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 10:53:43AM -0800, John Baldwin wrote:
>>
>> On 11-Jan-01 Jordan Hubbard wrote:
>> >> My personal opinion is that sysinstall.8 is a part of the base system
>> >> and shouldn't be optional. If we take your suggestion, it means that
>> >>
On 11-Jan-01 Jordan Hubbard wrote:
>> Let's put sysinstall back in sbin/ then. It _used_ to live there until
>> someo
> ne
>> moved it. :)
>
> I won't argue - move away! Just have one of the CVSmeisters do it as
> a repo-copy, of course.
Yay! Thanks. Will do. :)
> - Jordan
--
John Baldw
> Let's put sysinstall back in sbin/ then. It _used_ to live there until someo
ne
> moved it. :)
I won't argue - move away! Just have one of the CVSmeisters do it as
a repo-copy, of course.
- Jordan
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On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 10:53:43AM -0800, John Baldwin wrote:
>
> On 11-Jan-01 Jordan Hubbard wrote:
> >> My personal opinion is that sysinstall.8 is a part of the base system
> >> and shouldn't be optional. If we take your suggestion, it means that
> >> installworld will sometimes install this m
On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 09:29:45AM -0800, Bruce A. Mah wrote:
[snip]
> My personal opinion is that sysinstall.8 is a part of the base system
> and shouldn't be optional. If we take your suggestion, it means that
> installworld will sometimes install this manpage and sometimes it won't.
Bu-ut, a
On 11-Jan-01 Bruce A. Mah wrote:
> If memory serves me right, "Crist J. Clark" wrote:
>> I had some buildworld failures earlier this week. In
>> src/share/man/man8 the Makefile includes code to get the sysinstall.8
>> manpage. Since the manpage lives in src/release, this requires that
>> you CVSu
Crist J. Clark wrote:
> Anyone have a good reason why everyone _must_ have src-release to
> buildworld?
No. Sorry. I kind of assumed people doing buildworlds would just get
src-all. Pointy hat this way please...
As I said in a reply to a private mail to Crist, I'll commit a fix for
this ton
> My personal opinion is that sysinstall.8 is a part of the base system
> and shouldn't be optional. If we take your suggestion, it means that
> installworld will sometimes install this manpage and sometimes it won't.
I think we should simply move the stupid man page into man8. It's a bit
weird
If memory serves me right, "Crist J. Clark" wrote:
> I had some buildworld failures earlier this week. In
> src/share/man/man8 the Makefile includes code to get the sysinstall.8
> manpage. Since the manpage lives in src/release, this requires that
> you CVSup src-release. I had not been. This brok
I had some buildworld failures earlier this week. In
src/share/man/man8 the Makefile includes code to get the sysinstall.8
manpage. Since the manpage lives in src/release, this requires that
you CVSup src-release. I had not been. This broke buildworld which had
worked in the past. sysinstall.8 is
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