[ On Thursday, September 25, 2003 at 16:36:04 (+0100), David Laight wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: build.sh '-u' behavior problematic with new installs
>
> Actually you need to build with DESTDIR != / and then copy everything
> that got built from DESTDIR to /.

Yes, indeed!  ;-)

>  I use a rather nasty shell script
> that parses METALOG to find out what has been built recently.

I assume you meat s/built/installed/

That's exactly the scheme I was working on to build a binary patch
construction system.....

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