Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2015 11:33:36 +0930 From: "O'Connor, Daniel" <darius@dons.net.au> To: Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@freebsd.org> Cc: NGie Cooper <yaneurabeya@gmail.com>, Xin LI <d@delphij.net>, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Read-only /usr/obj/ no longer kosher? Message-ID: <516778C3-2B0E-4F6C-9225-C5218B0A349A@dons.net.au> In-Reply-To: <20150826225512.GF1172@garage.freebsd.pl> References: <20150823215552.GB1314@garage.freebsd.pl> <55DA492D.4030804@delphij.net> <20150825210437.GB1172@garage.freebsd.pl> <20150825215347.GD1172@garage.freebsd.pl> <20150825215524.GE1172@garage.freebsd.pl> <55DCEA64.8040304@delphij.net> <CAGHfRMBp_Vyyd9H-60H%2BUfWy%2BBek4tby%2BW=84DjxMmqMoTjtCg@mail.gmail.com> <20150826225512.GF1172@garage.freebsd.pl>
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> On 27 Aug 2015, at 08:25, Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 03:32:35PM -0700, NGie Cooper wrote: >> On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 3:21 PM, Xin Li <delphij@delphij.net> wrote: >>> On 08/25/15 14:55, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: >>>>> Now that I think of it, it might have been that I did >>>>> buildworld/buildkernel before -p1. Then freebsd-update updated >>>>> newvers.sh and then I was trying to do installworld. >>>> >>>> Yes, I can now reproduce it with source updated to -p2. >>> >>> Yes, that's because freebsd-version.sh is generated from the files (but >>> it's not clear to me whether if it's a bug or a feature that 'make >>> install' checks if it's up-to-date and decides to regenerate it...). >> >> It's a quirk for sure. If you change the behavior, people will >> definitely complain as they will now need to go back and rebuild >> everything. > > What we have now is misleading. People should recompile. It is rather > rare to see security advisory which bumps only patch level and something > that doesn't require recompilation (eg. a shell script). Current > behaviour would make people think they are running latest patch level > because freebsd-version says so, eventhough they only did 'make > installworld' without rebuilding affected binaries. So.. How hard would it be to force CC/CXX to /usr/bin/false during installworld? -- Daniel O'Connor "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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