mtree before mounting /usr

[Brooks Davis]

I'm trying to remove the dependencies on tools in /usr from the
/etc/rc.d/var script.  I've managed to eliminate touch and newsyslog,
but I would like some feedback on the best way to eliminate mtree.
Currently mtree lives in /usr/sbin.  I need to populate the empty md(4)
based /var.  There are two main approaches I can think of:

 - Move mtree to /sbin.  We'd probalby have to leave a symlink behind,
   but it would work and be fairly easy.
 - Add support to bsdtar for reading mtree files and use that
   functionality to create pax archives of BSD.var.dist and
   BSD.sendmail.dist.

Comments?

-- Brooks

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