Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 23:24:53 +0200 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Barney Wolff <barney@databus.com> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CVSUP and 5.2.1 RELEASE Message-ID: <26075.1089753893@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 13 Jul 2004 17:20:56 EDT." <20040713212056.GA82311@pit.databus.com>
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In message <20040713212056.GA82311@pit.databus.com>, Barney Wolff writes: >On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 11:14:01PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >> >> I have been involved in FreeBSD since we created the ncvs repository >> ten years and two months ago and barring minor mistakes here and >> there "make world" has performed the correct sequence of operations >> since then. > >Could you please enlighten the rest of us as to when the sequence of >operations performed by "make world" is a useful thing to do? The >only case I can imagine is that of a developer who has changed a .h >file that is widely used by userland but not by the kernel, and I >find it hard to imagine that happens often enough to weigh against >the continual damage to new users from this deceptively inviting target. I've said that already in earlier email: make world DESTDIR=/some_jail -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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