On Wed, 19 Sep 2001, John Baldwin wrote:
>
> On 19-Sep-01 Vincent Poy wrote:
> > On Wed, 19 Sep 2001, John Baldwin wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> On 19-Sep-01 Vincent Poy wrote:
> >> > Just a question, does /stand still exist in -current? If so, how
> >> > does on update it? I remember the old method was make all install in
> >> > /usr/src/release/sysinstall but this no longer works.
> >>
> >> sysinstall lives in /usr/sbin and is updated during every buildworld now.
> >>
> >> /stand is a backup copy of utilities used during the initial installation.
> >
> > Interesting. I remember sysinstall used to be in /stand and
> > /stand used to be a bunch of utils statically linked to sysinstall. When
> > I did the last binary upgrade install of the June 18, 2001 -current
> > snapshot from current.FreeBSD.ORG, it never updated /stand at all since I
> > know if does when I do a binary upgrade of -RELEASE.
>
> sysinstall moved to /usr/bin in current. The /stand stuff is created by
> sysinstall during the initial installation. I'm not sure if it gets updated by
> binary upgrades.
Interesting. Normally, the bindist if you use the install.sh
would extract and replace pretty much everything on the system including
/stand and /etc.
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