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Date:      Mon, 23 Apr 2001 10:54:42 -0700 (PDT)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: One more typo in src/release/Makefile, rev 1.612? (w/patch)
Message-ID:  <XFMail.010423105442.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20010422163348.G33037@dragon.nuxi.com>

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On 22-Apr-01 David O'Brien wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 08:10:39PM -0700, John Baldwin wrote:
>> Also, Bruce's fix is not entirely correct as it breaks for the
>> non-debug kernel case, but I've already sent you a mail about that,
>> just to let everyone know that it should be fixed shortly. :)
> 
> I commited your "fix" for it.  IMHO, it is cleaner before my commit and
> thus what it should be -- the release system should match what is known
> about the world.  If someone has the need to disable debug kernels, they
> have the knowledge to edit src/release/Makefile... never the less, I
> committed what you desired.

The idea is so that the release doesn't have to know.  The same Makefile works
in both environments.   That way, when we do an actual release, we only have to
commit changes to the kernel config files, we don't have to hack the release
Makefile as well.

-- 

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