On 4/15/05, Joel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just finished rebuilding and installing the world and the kernel by the > "canonical" method. > > In using mergemaster, I find myself puzzled by the locale stuff in mtree. > I have not installed a lot of locales, haven't even started X11 at all > yet, but the updates seem to want to put a lot of stuff about locales in > BSD.X11-4.dist and BSD.local.dist. Is all that locale stuff necessary > there if you haven't installed all those locales? > The locale stuff in the BSD.*.dist files is used to create standard directories and permissions. This way when you install a port/package it doesn't need to create the missing locale directories, instead mtree will create them.
> (I tried to merge BSD.local.dist, and I think I botched it.) > Just copy the src/etc/mtree/BSD.local.dist to /etc/mtree to fix it. > I'm not really clear on what mtree does, in case that isn't obvious. > Search the web only turned up stuff about an alternative to tripwire, > but I suppose it might be mergemaster's db configuration? (Scanned man > on mtree and /usr/src/etc/mtree/README, but it hasn't sunk it yet.) > mtree is used to create standard permissions (directories and files) and default directories that should exist. _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
