From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Apr 12 14:43:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.204.136.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BEDA37B596 for ; Wed, 12 Apr 2000 14:43:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [195.204.143.218]) by ns1.yes.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA01180 for ; Wed, 12 Apr 2000 23:43:15 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id XAA03037 for freebsd-arch@freebsd.org; Wed, 12 Apr 2000 23:43:07 +0200 (CEST) Received: from dt051n0b.san.rr.com (dt051n0b.san.rr.com [204.210.32.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 017A337B5A8; Wed, 12 Apr 2000 14:41:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from slave (doug@slave [10.0.0.1]) by dt051n0b.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA02575; Wed, 12 Apr 2000 14:41:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 14:41:44 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug Barton X-Sender: doug@dt051n0b.san.rr.com To: Warner Losh Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , Poul-Henning Kamp , arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "buildig release" knob in make world/release In-Reply-To: <200004121819.MAA39025@harmony.village.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 12 Apr 2000, Warner Losh wrote: > In message <9189.955552615@zippy.cdrom.com> "Jordan K. Hubbard" writes: > : I agree that there should be a knob, but I see it as a make.conf > : knob rather than a release knob since most people playing with this > : stuff build from sources rather than install snapshots. > > Call it SANITY_CHECKING. Have it be a number. 0 == RELEASE, 1 == > DEVELOPMENT, 2 == development of risky things, etc. Wouldn't it be easier to set the value of SANITY_CHECKING equal to "DEVELOPMENT" rather than have to remember some kind of code? Also, someone else suggested that "PRODUCTION" is a better definition than "RELEASE", and I agree with that sentiment. Doug -- Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. -- W. Somerset Maugham To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message