Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2005 15:50:54 +0200 From: Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org> To: Alexander Leidinger <netchild@FreeBSD.org> Cc: src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, ru@FreeBSD.org, grehan@FreeBSD.org, des@des.no, "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src Makefile.inc1 ObsoleteFiles.inc src/share/man/man7 build.7 Message-ID: <20050803135054.GQ62914@garage.freebsd.pl> In-Reply-To: <20050803121150.gn025733y8400wk8@netchild.homeip.net> References: <20050731102343.35bc4aa9@Magellan.Leidinger.net> <20050802090717.GK14023@ip.net.ua> <20050802140536.zstn68rcgsg84g0w@netchild.homeip.net> <20050802.085239.34568854.imp@bsdimp.com> <20050803121150.gn025733y8400wk8@netchild.homeip.net>
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--uCPdOCrL+PnN2Vxy Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 12:11:50PM +0200, Alexander Leidinger wrote: +> "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote: +>=20 +> >In message: <20050802140536.zstn68rcgsg84g0w@netchild.homeip.net> +> > Alexander Leidinger <netchild@FreeBSD.org> writes: +> >: When an user calls delete-old with DESTDIR set to the root of a non-n= ative +> >: machine architecture he may remove non-obsolete files when he forgets= to set +> >: TARGET_ARCH. I want to prevent this situation. I think "failsafe" is = more +> >: important than "POLA" in this case. +> >If TARGET_ARCH is set, then the right set of files will be deleted if +> >you use TARGET_ARCH rather than MACHINE_ARCH. +>=20 +> Yes. I'm not talking about technical problems. I talk about problems whi= ch +> sit on a chair. If we change MACHINE_ARCH to TARGET_ARCH and an user runs +> "make delete-old-libs" without setting TARGET_ARCH in a cross-arch +> environment, he will remove non-obsolete libs. And I think we should go = the +> failsafe route. We could prevent user from doing this, by stopping the whole process when we find that executable/library is compiled for other arch and TARGET_ARCH is not explicity set. You can easly check that with file(1)... --=20 Pawel Jakub Dawidek http://www.wheel.pl pjd@FreeBSD.org http://www.FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer Am I Evil? Yes, I Am! --uCPdOCrL+PnN2Vxy Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFC8Mu+ForvXbEpPzQRAiVOAJ9bTUtw/ggcbz40lVgeJjIMo+RXnwCfTTxH pMvamhlJkvZJlKGfRYGdccU= =4T26 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --uCPdOCrL+PnN2Vxy--
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