On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 01:29:43PM -0800, Tim Kientzle wrote: > Brooks Davis wrote: > >On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 11:44:33AM -0800, Tim Kientzle wrote: > > > >>Brooks Davis wrote: > >> > >>>I think there's some argument that > >>>we should move mtree and possiably newsyslog to /sbin to support the > >>>population of /var. > >> > >>Has you considered /bin/pax? > > > >It seems like that would require a complete rewrite of how we handle > >directory creation in the build/release process. > > Not necessarily. > > It's relatively easy to convert an mtree file to a tar > file. (Just expand the mtree file into a temp dir, then > tar up the result.) Then we could have both mtree > and tar files in /etc/mtree. > > Nothing else needs to change, and that gives us something > that can be used with /bin/pax on populate critical > dirs on systems before /usr is mounted. That's true. The idea of creating directory hierarchies just to tar them up during buildworld seem a bit evil though. > P.S. Hmmm... It looks like it would be easy for > libarchive to also read mtree files. Then > bsdtar's built-in features for converting archive formats > on-the-fly might be useful here. Hmmm.... This would deal with my concerns about making all the directories. This would yeild a reasionable, single stage method of creating source files for populating directories without requiring mtree. I like this idea. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4
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