On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 06:56:57AM +0700, Robert Elz wrote: > Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2019 23:30:47 +0200 > From: Joerg Sonnenberger <jo...@bec.de> > Message-ID: <20191023213047.ga73...@bec.de> > > | (1) Abuse of symlinks to shuffle the tree somewhere else. IMO whoever > | wants to do that should be using null mounts and deal with it > | appropiately in sysinst or whatever on their own. > > With that attitude we may as well simply delete symlink support from > NetBSD and use only null mounts everywhere. That's not workable at all.
Seriously? We have a well supported mechanism for splitting the base system across different file systems. It's called mount points. We support no way to install a system with symlinks in random places, that has to be done by hand. If a user has such special needs to have such a special setup with all the associated sources of problems, they can also manage to update sets by hand and include -P. > | For that one [rc.d chroot movements], there are a couple of options: > | (a) Move the directories under /etc from base.tgz to etc.tgz. > > So updates to the files in them don't happen during an upgrade, or > don't necessarily happen. Please read again what I said and take a look at the content of base.tgz. Joerg
