From owner-cvs-all Sun Dec 27 23:49:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA03632 for cvs-all-outgoing; Sun, 27 Dec 1998 23:49:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cimlogic.com.au (cimlog.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.51.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA03627 for ; Sun, 27 Dec 1998 23:49:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jb@cimlogic.com.au) Received: (from jb@localhost) by cimlogic.com.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) id SAA14327; Mon, 28 Dec 1998 18:51:44 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from jb) From: John Birrell Message-Id: <199812280751.SAA14327@cimlogic.com.au> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/conf GENERIC GENERICupgrade SMP-GENERIC In-Reply-To: <199812280713.SAA14066@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from Bruce Evans at "Dec 28, 98 06:13:59 pm" To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1998 18:51:44 +1100 (EST) Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Bruce Evans wrote: > >I think we should test is the file exists and copy GENERIC if not. > >And if the GENERIC file was copied to GENERICupgrade, delete it after > >running config. > > Except this breaks with a read-only source tree (but so does the default > for compiling a kernel). We should change config to allow both the path to the config file and the build directory to be (optionally) specified via arguments rather than hard coding them. -- John Birrell - jb@cimlogic.com.au; jb@freebsd.org http://www.cimlogic.com.au/ CIMlogic Pty Ltd, GPO Box 117A, Melbourne Vic 3001, Australia +61 418 353 137 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message