Re: FreeBSD 5.1-BETA2 install results

From: Scott Long <scott_long_at_btc.adaptec.com>
Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 13:51:45 -0600
John Baldwin wrote:
> On 22-May-2003 Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> 
>>On Thu, May 22, 2003 at 10:01:27AM -0600, Scott Long wrote:
>>
>>>Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
>>>
>>>>While it may seem confusing at a glance, it's okay (skrb5).
>>>>Example: we don't provide "share" distribution, but we have
>>>>"sshare" source distribution.  Similarly here, we don't
>>>>provide "krb5" distribution any more (it's part of the
>>>>"crypto" distribution), but we provide "skrb5" distribution,
>>>>in the same location as "scrypto" and "ssecure", in
>>>>${CHROOTDIR}/R/ftp/crypto/.
>>>>
>>>
>>>I'd have to say that I'd rather not perpetuate the inconsistency.
>>>These kinds of things make the installer more and more obscure.
>>>
>>
>>What I'm trying to say it that source distribution are
>>not strictly bound to their binary equivalents.
>>
>>The sshare source dist partly ends up in the manpages
>>and catpages bin dists.
>>
>>
>>>>>Also, have you tested a release with this patch?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Since it only affects sysinstall(8), I just recompiled the
>>>>latter, and played with it for a bit on a running system.
>>>
>>>Great!  John's patch looked a little more complete, maybe John
>>>can comment on that.
>>>
>>
>>May I have a look at John's patch as well?
> 
> 
> It's pretty much identical actually except that I didn't touch
> the manpage.  Oh, and I left DIST_CRYPTO_BIN around rather than
> axeing it.  As long as it has been tested I'm fine with either one.
> I do think we should fix the skrb5 issue.  Hmm, actually, having
> looked at how the src dists are built (one for each top-level dir
> in /usr/src), getting rid of skrb5 would require an ugly hack, so
> I guess we should leave it around.
> 


I think that your patch also updated the DIST_CRYPTO_ALL to reflect
the removed dist flags.  Not a big deal though.

Scott
Received on Thu May 22 2003 - 10:54:55 UTC

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