On Thu, Aug 25, 2022 at 12:16:56PM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote: > This binary being static has nothing to do with "installer testing". > You've got that completely wrong. It has nothing to do with reacharounds > either, since instbin takes care of all that.
Thanks. > > It has to do with people who may want to use it when their systems are > broken in some way, to repair their systems. Yes they need to mount /usr, > but their system may be too broken for dynamic linking to work, and there > may be multiple steps to repair it, including the ld.so cache etc etc This is also an argument for other programs we may need to fix a system but those are not linked statically. > > If you make this dynamic, I think someone will suffer. Dynamic installboot would be nice but I don't have strong opinoins about it, so best drop the diff and retain the chance to repair your system.
