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Date:      10 May 2003 03:15:30 +0100
From:      Paul Richards <paul@freebsd-services.com>
To:        Lars Eggert <larse@ISI.EDU>
Cc:        kientzle@acm.org
Subject:   Re: hardcoded -C argument to ${INSTALL}
Message-ID:  <1052532928.27195.1.camel@cf.freebsd-services.com>
In-Reply-To: <3EBBF589.4080300@isi.edu>
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On Fri, 2003-05-09 at 19:38, Lars Eggert wrote:
> Tim Kientzle wrote:
> > Paul Richards wrote:
> >> On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 10:24:43PM -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> >>
> >>> I'm still partial to the obsolete file list, like NetBSD does.
> >>> Anything else I wouldn't trust.
> > 
> > Of course, such a list still needs to be generated
> > automatically, else it won't be maintained.  You have
> 
> FYI, this idea below also seems like a viable approach that doesn't 
> depend on a specific way to install things. But it'd still need the 
> override list of things you'd like to keep, and has some space/time 
> overhead.

It takes 3.5 hours to build world on my box. The solution below isn't
really viable based on that. It's definitely a workable solution but
it's not practical on a daily basis.

> Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>  >
>  > My suggestion for such a tool would be to run make installworld with
>  > a DESTDIR set, and compare the two trees ?
> 
> Lars
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Paul Richards <paul@freebsd-services.com>
FreeBSD Services Ltd



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