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Date:      Thu, 9 Sep 1999 08:53:52 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      Nick Hibma <nick.hibma@jrc.it>
To:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>
Cc:        "John W. DeBoskey" <jwd@unx.sas.com>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: optional 'make release' speed-up patch 
Message-ID:  <Pine.GS4.4.10.9909090852190.6707-100000@elect8>
In-Reply-To: <7125.936851836@localhost>

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To me this very much sounds like feature creap. The less options, the
better, no one is looking at them anyway. Who says you are doing a
build on ufs anyway?

It might be something for a FAQ though (if there is one) or for the
handbook.

Just my 0.01 BEF.

Nick

 > >    The following patch to /usr/src/release/Makefile allows the
 > > specification of the variable FASTCLEAN, which instead of doing
 > > a recursive rm on CHROOTDIR, simply umounts/newfs/mounts. Of
 > > course, this is only useful if your CHROOTDIR location is a
 > > separate mount point (which mine is: /snap).
 > 
 > No offense, but this is really pretty ugly for something that I'd
 > anticipate to be a *major* edge case.  I've been building releases for
 > years, for example, and I've yet to build one on a filesystem all by
 > itself.  I usually just cast around for some space on an existing
 > (shared) fs and go to it, and I suspect that many others are the same
 > way. :-)
 > 
 > I'm not saying there shouldn't be a *hook* of some sort for doing
 > "fast cleans", but the patches as they stand add way too much of a
 > delta for only one very specific optimization.
 > 
 > - Jordan
 > 
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