Subject: Re: moving etc/release from etc to base set
To: Luke Mewburn <lukem@NetBSD.org>
From: Hubert Feyrer <hubert@feyrer.de>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 09/03/2004 12:15:53
On Thu, 2 Sep 2004, Luke Mewburn wrote:
> I've considered that a reasonable solution to this is to move
> /etc/release from the `etc' set to the `base' set.
> This would go against our prior art of not having /etc/ files
> in base, but in this case I think that this would be a useful change
> and I can't think of any problems with this.
>
> Any comments/objections?

Sounds good - etc/release is basically a "checksum" of the userland
binaries.

It would still be nice to have that file updated by "build.sh install=...)
though.


 - Hubert

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