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+#	$Id$
+#
+
+MTREE_DIR=	${.CURDIR}/../etc/mtree
+
+hieriarchy:
+	# If this exits with an error code of 2 your file hieriarchy was
+	# modified for some reason, please read the mtree output to understand
+	# what was changed, then run the command again.
+	#
+	# XXX This will currently error out if you have a procfs mounted,
+	# unmount it to get past this problem until procfs is fixed.
+	#
+	mtree -deu -f ${MTREE_DIR}/BSD.root.dist  -p ${DESTDIR}/
+	mtree -deu -f ${MTREE_DIR}/BSD.var.dist   -p ${DESTDIR}/var
+	mtree -deu -f ${MTREE_DIR}/BSD.usr.dist   -p ${DESTDIR}/usr
+.if defined(MAKE_LOCAL)
+	mtree -deu -f ${MTREE_DIR}/BSD.local.dist -p ${DESTDIR}/usr/local
+.endif
+	cd ${DESTDIR}/ && rm -f ${DESTDIR}/sys && ln -s usr/src/sys sys