Re: Removing GENERIC.local from the repository

["Julio M. Merino Vidal" <jmmv84%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Feb 10, 2008, at 3:56 PM, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:

> On Sun, 10 Feb 2008 10:54:53 +0100
> "Julio M. Merino Vidal" <jmmv84%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
>
>
> > What I'd like to do is change all kernels that include a
> > GENERIC.local to use cinclude instead, and then drop GENERIC.local
> > from the CVS.  The reason for this is to avoid having local
> > modifications to files that are strictly designed to modified
> > locally and never committed.
>
> I very much agree, for an even stronger reason: I like /usr/src to be
> read-only, so I can blow it away and recreate it, without pain.

Me too but... in that case you cannot use GENERIC.local anyway, can  
you?  Because, as far as I know, you cannot trick the system to look  
for that file in some other place...