stand/..

[Bill Moran]

dick hoogendijk wrote:
> On 11 Apr Bill Moran wrote:
> 
>>Dick Hoogendijk wrote:
>>
>>>Do I wipe this "stand" dir? Or do I "refresh it" somehow. I also have
>>>the 4.8 release on CD.. Any advice would be appreciated.
>>
>>/stand contains the wonderful sysinstall ... which can be used for many
>>system administrative duties.
>>/stand should get updated when you buildworld.
> 
> I like /stand/sysinstall too for the same reasons you mention. I did a
> buildworld, so I guess /stand is updated..
> 
> The reason I ask is that all other (new) compiled programs have the date
> of the buildworld. (april 11) But NOT for "/stand"
> It still is Oct 9 2002
> and I don't know why.. Is this 'cause it's kind of a "special" dir w/ no
> "real" files? Like to learn something here..

Ok ... I'm gonna have to eat crow and correct myself here ...

/stand is NOT updated by buildworld ... I don't know why, but (as someone
else pointed out) it's clearly stated so in the hanbook (section 21.4.12
on this page:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html

So ... I apologize for the misinformation.  The correct information is in
the handbook (as usual) as well as the proceedure for updating /stand
Additionally, there's another good reason for keeping it around in the
handbook (contains static binaries that don't need other filesystems
mounted).

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Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
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