Just finished rebuilding and installing the world and the kernel by the "canonical" method. In using mergemaster, I find myself puzzled by the locale stuff in mtree. I have not installed a lot of locales, haven't even started X11 at all yet, but the updates seem to want to put a lot of stuff about locales in BSD.X11-4.dist and BSD.local.dist. Is all that locale stuff necessary there if you haven't installed all those locales? (I tried to merge BSD.local.dist, and I think I botched it.) I'm not really clear on what mtree does, in case that isn't obvious. Search the web only turned up stuff about an alternative to tripwire, but I suppose it might be mergemaster's db configuration? (Scanned man on mtree and /usr/src/etc/mtree/README, but it hasn't sunk it yet.) Appreciate a cluestick if anyone cares to hit me with one. -- Joel Rees <rees@ddcom.co.jp> digitcom, inc. ???????? Kobe, Japan +81-78-672-8800 ** <http://www.ddcom.co.jp> **
On 4/15/05, Joel <rees@ddcom.co.jp> wrote:> Just finished rebuilding and installing the world and the kernel by the > "canonical" method. > > In using mergemaster, I find myself puzzled by the locale stuff in mtree. > I have not installed a lot of locales, haven't even started X11 at all > yet, but the updates seem to want to put a lot of stuff about locales in > BSD.X11-4.dist and BSD.local.dist. Is all that locale stuff necessary > there if you haven't installed all those locales? >The locale stuff in the BSD.*.dist files is used to create standard directories and permissions. This way when you install a port/package it doesn't need to create the missing locale directories, instead mtree will create them.> (I tried to merge BSD.local.dist, and I think I botched it.) >Just copy the src/etc/mtree/BSD.local.dist to /etc/mtree to fix it.> I'm not really clear on what mtree does, in case that isn't obvious. > Search the web only turned up stuff about an alternative to tripwire, > but I suppose it might be mergemaster's db configuration? (Scanned man > on mtree and /usr/src/etc/mtree/README, but it hasn't sunk it yet.) >mtree is used to create standard permissions (directories and files) and default directories that should exist.