Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 07:30:42 -0700 From: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca> To: Dominic Marks <dominic_marks@btinternet.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Addition to /usr/share/mk/sys.mk, Comments? Message-ID: <200108301431.f7UEVUQ10449@cwsys.cwsent.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 29 Aug 2001 13:41:09 BST." <20010829124109.F3EC66A9@host213-123-150-27.in-addr.btopenworld.com>
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In message <20010829124109.F3EC66A9@host213-123-150-27.in-addr.btopenwor ld.com> , Dominic Marks writes: > Hi, > > I've often found a need to have a user specific make.conf in which I > can store various variables. A patch to /usr/share/mk/sys.mk makes > ~/make.conf be evaluated last which I find very useful especially > when installing ports under users home directories, the patch is a > tiny three liner, if tested it on my home system. > > Because its evaluted last it can override the others, which I imagine > could be a security hole or perhaps undesireable for root? In which > case it should be evaluted second and leave /etc/make.conf for last. > > Any opinions? Perhaps this mailing list is not the ideal forum for > this discussion, however I couldn't think of a list that would be > better. If you can reccomend one ... If it's needed, it should become a dot file, e.g. ~/.make.conf. Regards, Phone: (250)387-8437 Cy Schubert Fax: (250)387-5766 Team Leader, Sun/Alpha Team Internet: Cy.Schubert@osg.gov.bc.ca Open Systems Group, ITSD Ministry of Management Services Province of BC To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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