Re: Move /usr/sup to /var/db/sup?

From: Crist J. Clark (cristjc_at_comcast.net)
Date: 05/22/04

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    Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 15:15:54 -0700
To: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>

    On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 04:57:24PM -0500, Mark Linimon wrote:
    > Could we also consider the approach of leaving the supfiles in
    > /usr/sup (since they are small and only rarely change) and having
    > the files that change in /var/db/sup, or does the directory need
    > to be the same?

    You can put the supfiles wherever you want. There is no standard
    place for a supfile. Since the "base" is specified in the supfile,
    there is a chicken-and-egg problem of placing the supfile in the
    base directory and expecting CVSup to find it. In addition, it
    would probably make more sense to put supfiles in the base directory
    (which is /usr in the examples) rather than in the sup directory
    (/usr/sup). I suspect most would consider having supfiles in /usr
    quite an afront.

    I didn't want to have to discuss the implications of the fact that
    the hardcoded base default in cvsup(1) is /usr/local/etc/cvsup,
    but that is probably the most logical place to put supfiles (logical
    as in "the place someone else might actually find them"). 

    -- 
Crist J. Clark                     |     cjclark@alum.mit.edu
                                   |     cjclark@jhu.edu
http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/    |     cjc@freebsd.org
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