On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 01:41:53PM -0500 I heard the voice of Garance A Drosihn, and lo! it spake thus:
It is a bit more complicated than that, because programs may include embedded references to other files. So, I think some developer would *have* to do a little up-front work for any program that would be optionally-added to /rescue.
Oh, sure; nothing's ever as easy as it should be :)
The advantage of this method is it's simple, cheap, automatic, and lets us say "You can try setting ADDITIONAL_RESCUE=usr.sbin/foo in make.conf and it may work", without putting extra burden on developers or people who don't wanna. It may only be a fifth of a loaf, but...
... but a /rescue that doesn't work is useless.
The one critical property of /rescue is that it MUST WORK when /bin and /sbin are both hosed. Your technique here cannot gaurantee this.
Testing /rescue is not a simple exercise. You must first break both /bin and /sbin and unmount /usr. You must then test EVERY part of /rescue, since adding or removing one program can potentially break other programs (whose hard-coded references to that program may need to be adjusted). There are (fortunately) a few shortcuts (I spent a long time poring over the output of 'strings /rescue/rescue' to check for hard-coded references), but it's still not pretty.
Tim
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