Date: Mon, 22 Apr 1996 10:27:23 -0700 (PDT) From: "JULIAN Elischer" <julian@ref.tfs.com> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: nate@sri.MT.net, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What do folks think of the following patch? Message-ID: <199604221727.KAA19763@ref.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: <6802.830138137@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Apr 21, 96 06:55:37 pm
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I would like a make world to also install etc if the DESTDIR is not / I often make images of systems and want /etc to be rebuilt as well, but it never is.. > > > /etc is not updated across upgrades, nor is it vulnerable to src > smashing. > > Jordan > > > > > It seems like world, update, all and install should be targets which > > > include an optional sub-make in /etc/Makefile for the corresponding > > > target (only the diff to world: is shown here). This would give us > > > a nice way of doing site-specific stuff which is preserved across changes > > > to /usr/src/Makefile. > > > > Since both /etc/make.conf and /usr/src/Makefile are generated by us, > > what does adding it in the tree vs. having them add buy us? > > > > In either case, the end-user has to edit the files. > > > > (I'm not against the idea, but I don't see any purpose for it.) > > > > > > > > nate > >
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