Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2002 09:04:19 +1000
From: Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org>
To: Maxime Henrion <mux@freebsd.org>
Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org, Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com>
Subject: Re: patch to have make clean not recurse in ${PORTSDIR}
Message-ID: <20020427090419.F56612@k7.mavetju.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020426224107.GB42922@elvis.mu.org>; from mux@freebsd.org on Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 03:41:07PM -0700
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On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 03:41:07PM -0700, Maxime Henrion wrote: > Kent Stewart wrote: > > I think that as long as a make will automatically install all of the > > b-deps and r-deps of a port the default should be what it is. If you > > do not clean what you have generated, people will have a shock from > > all of the code that suddenly appeared and caught them off guard. > > This only affects a make clean in /usr/ports. Not the rest. So > everything will still get cleaned. It should also affect the make clean in /usr/ports/*, if they are not a port-directory. The find /usr/ports -name Makefile is *not* a good solution, since the design of the ports-layout is to modular and hierarchical[sp]. There even might be ports (I agree, there are none) which require a different behaviour on a "make clean" then a "rm -rf work". For example, if I make a port which remembers certain settings before a compile (i.e. postfix, or ghostview-gnu) and the next time the port is made I want to use the old settings (otherwise they should have done a "make config"). A "make clean" anywhere would rebuild the port with the old settings... A "find /usr/ports -name work | xargs rm -rf" would destroy the settings. But then, this problem is there already for so long and has some much being talked about that probably nobody dares to change it anymore... :-( Edwin -- Edwin Groothuis | Personal website: http://www.MavEtJu.org edwin@mavetju.org | Interested in MUDs? Visit Fatal Dimensions: bash$ :(){ :|:&};: | http://www.FatalDimensions.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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