On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 05:53:49PM +0000, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> 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?
Because it won't do the right thing when you do build.sh -V MKCRAP=no.
The point is not to break it, it is to make sure people who use it know
what they're doing.
--
Quentin Garnier - cube%cubidou.net@localhost - cube%NetBSD.org@localhost
"See the look on my face from staying too long in one place
[...] every time the morning breaks I know I'm closer to falling"
KT Tunstall, Saving My Face, Drastic Fantastic, 2007.
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