Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2018 11:47:12 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net> To: Brad Davis <brd@freebsd.org> Cc: rgrimes@freebsd.org, Kyle Evans <kevans@freebsd.org>, src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r334617 - in head: . etc Message-ID: <201806041847.w54IlCUu097084@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net> In-Reply-To: <1528137662.1039856.1396087184.58D9A41E@webmail.messagingengine.com>
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[ Charset UTF-8 unsupported, converting... ] > On Mon, Jun 4, 2018, at 10:57 AM, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > > On Mon, Jun 4, 2018, at 9:29 AM, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > > > [ Charset UTF-8 unsupported, converting... ] > > > > > On Mon, Jun 4, 2018 at 10:17 AM, Brad Davis <brd@freebsd.org> wrote: > > > > > > Author: brd > > > > > > Date: Mon Jun 4 15:17:24 2018 > > > > > > New Revision: 334617 > > > > > > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/334617 > > > > > > > > > > > > Log: > > > > > > Move /sys symlink creating out of etc/Makefile. > > > > > > > > > > > > This is prep for etc/Makefile going away. > > > > > > > > > > > > Approved by: bapt (mentor) > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Woah, woah, woah, woah. =) May I ask what your plan for etc/Makefile > > > > > is? Some of the NO_ROOT stuff there seems to be terribly broken and > > > > > needs to be fixed; this was on my 'some day to fix' list. > > > > > > > > Yes please, much more information here. I use some of the targets > > > > in src/etc/Makefile such as distribution: > > > > > > All the config files need to be pushed back next to the source they belong to. > > > > That is fine, but there is stuff other than config files, how do you plan > > to handle that? > > Moving them as appropriate just like the above.. So another words you have no plan yet? > > > What do you use these targets for? > > > > Building custom installation sets, building nfs shares. > > OK, what commands specifically are you calling in etc/ directly and why? I said in my first reply specifically distribution: > > I would expect the targets in the root of the src tree would handle that stuff for you? hierarchy: may > > > > I believe there are also other external consumers of this. > > > > > > Such as? > > > > Iirc some of the make release stuff calls into here, but that > > may of changed to use src/Makefile targets. distrib-dirs comes > > to mind. > > Sure, but those can go away or be updated as needed.. So again, no plan yet? > Regards, > Brad Davis -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@freebsd.org
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