Re: etcupdate and postinstall: make "-s src" compulsory

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article <20081018115208.GF1374%apb-laptoy.apb.alt.za@localhost>,
Alan Barrett  <apb%cequrux.com@localhost> wrote:
>On Thu, 20 Dec 2007, Alan Barrett wrote:
>> etcupdate and postinstall both behave, by default, as if "-s /usr/src"
>> was specified.  I believe that this is not useful, because:
>> 
>>   * many people keep their sources elsewhere than /usr/src;
>> 
>>   * etcupdate, when given a source directory, attempts to run "make
>>     distribution" in ${SRCDIR}/etc, and this often fails.  Fixing the
>>     make failures is non trivial, and I really don't care about fixing
>>     them because I always recommend that people should use "etcupdate -s
>>     etc.tgz".
>> 
>> So, I'd like to make it an error to run postinstall or etcupdate without
>> giving a "-s" arg.  People can still use "-s /usr/src" to get the
>> existing (IMHO broken) behaviour.
>
>There were no objections to that suggestion, so I'd like to implement it
>soon.

I use /usr/src and I am perfectly happy. Why break it?

christos