On Sun, 23 Nov 2003, Bruce M Simpson wrote: >On Sun, Nov 23, 2003 at 02:42:58AM +0100, Brad Knowles wrote: >> At 5:22 PM -0800 2003/11/22, David O'Brien wrote: >> >> > Please, NO. There wasn't an FTP client available for this type of >> > recovery pre-/rescue, there shouldn't be one now. >> >> Why? Why cut your nose off to spite your face? Even though this >> capability may not have existed before, why shouldn't we have it now? > >I think David has valid concerns here about feeping creaturism. fetch >has a whole load of library dependencies which go with it, making it >unsuitable for inclusion in /rescue in the base system. > >If you want access to fetch early on in this way, you could make a local >branch and maintain the change for your own site, or you could boot from >a FreeBSD live CD, or use sysinstall from the installation CD to install >a package. I don't see fetch as a requirement for diskless clients. > Not diskless clients, but ruined FreeBSD installation. IMHO /rescue is created for it. We shouldn't put fetch into /bin, but placing fetch into crunched executable may be helpful in case of system restore. Sincerely, Maxim M. Kazachek mailto:stranger_at_sberbank.sibnet.ru mailto:stranger_at_fpm.ami.nstu.ruReceived on Sun Nov 23 2003 - 23:53:36 UTC
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