Re: fixing bugs in packages

[Julio Merino <jmmv%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 6:16 AM, Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost> 
wrote:
> On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 12:10:43PM +0200, Edgar Fuß wrote:
>> You are right in that a "rebuild" target would probably ease the development
>> in that you could shorten the cycle to make deinstall; make rebuild;
>> make install.
>
> I don't even want deinstall/reinstall, as it can take significant time.
> I just want:
>
>        make rebuild && make overwrite

make rebuild would be a nice idea indeed.  make overwrite should
already be possible as "make reinstall && make replace".

(But if we had a rebuild target, that could nuke all the relevant
.*_done cookies so that a simple "make rebuild && make replace" would
do the right thing.)

-- 
Julio Merino / @jmmv