Subject: Re: mtree and builds
To: James Chacon <jchacon@genuity.net>
From: Luke Mewburn <lukem@wasabisystems.com>
List: tech-toolchain
Date: 02/20/2002 21:33:33
On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 03:45:21AM -0500, James Chacon wrote:
| Can anyone think of a reason not to change etc's distrib-dirs rule to
| invoke mtree with -N ${.CURDIR}? (Luke added this recently and lets an
| alternate pw/group file set than the ones in /etc guide mtree).
|
| This would remove the annoying "don't have ntpd in my 1.5 password file when
| attempting to cross build" bugs.
It might bite people who change the uids of default users when
building into "/". That's why I didn't make this the default
when I added the support.
I can't see a problem with doing this for DESTDIR builds,
especially UNPRIVED DESTDIR builds.
Luke.