Re: sysctl move to /sbin

[David Brownlee <abs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

        Can this be documented somewhere like htdocs/developers/notes.list
        to avoid this problem in future?

                David/absolute

On Wed, 19 Jan 2000, Manuel Bouyer wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 19, 2000 at 11:03:22PM +0900, itojun%iijlab.net@localhost wrote:
> > >No, you have to add it explicitely to the obsolete list.
> > 
> >     hmm, opinion varies... what should I do?  I see very few commits
> >     in obsolete.* after they were created (never, or only once).
> >     http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/basesrc/distrib/sets/lists/base/
> 
> If you remove sysctl from /usr/sbin it should be but in the obsolete
> list, so that sysinst will be able to remove it on upgrade. Otherwise,
> on upgrade from 1.4.x->1.5 a 1.4 sysctl will be left in /usr/sbin which 
> is bad.
> If you make a symlink in /usr/sbin then the old sysctl will be remplaced
> by the symlink when sysinst unpacks the sets.
> 
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