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Date:      Sun, 9 Jun 2002 19:19:05 +0200
From:      Alessandro de Manzano <adm@unixmania.net>
To:        Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru>
Cc:        Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, randall ehren <randall@ucsb.edu>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: make buildworld problems
Message-ID:  <20020609191905.A59230@libero.sunshine.ale>
In-Reply-To: <20020609205927.I7944-100000@woozle.rinet.ru>; from marck@rinet.ru on Sun, Jun 09, 2002 at 09:02:56PM %2B0400
References:  <20020609185614.D58910@libero.sunshine.ale> <20020609205927.I7944-100000@woozle.rinet.ru>

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On Sun, Jun 09, 2002 at 09:02:56PM +0400, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote:

> AdM> yeah, my ignorance of build system internals tells me it sound
> AdM> reasonable ;-)
> 
> Well, next thougt: maybe it's kinda chicken'n'egg problem: if you have
> build machine, made there a buildworld, and then export both /usr/src and
> /usr/obj via read-only NFS, you have exactly the same problem...

you're right :-)
I did not think about it 'cause I never did an installworld via NFS..

> AdM> IMHO it's quite annoying turning off noexec on /var's just to
> AdM> rebuild/reinstall systems...
> 
> Luckily enough, 'build installworld' is not quite frequent task to do ;-)

oh absolutely! :)

> Moreover, UPDATING tells us we should do this in single-user mode so
> noexec harms noone but you The Machine Superior ;-)

... who, for sure, forgot to remove noexec on /var till first error
come up.. ;-)
I vote for at least a little check (touch somefile ?) in some scripts..

...maybe I'll do some little shell script for my internal use doing
this, otherwise I already know I'll forget it... ;)


-- 

bye!

Ale


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