From owner-freebsd-arch Sun Oct 10 0:21:10 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.204.136.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DE6F14BCA for ; Sun, 10 Oct 1999 00:20:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [195.204.143.218]) by ns1.yes.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA15235 for ; Sun, 10 Oct 1999 09:20:20 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id JAA56738 for freebsd-arch@freebsd.org; Sun, 10 Oct 1999 09:20:19 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from gratis.grondar.za (gratis.grondar.za [196.7.18.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70483154DC; Sun, 10 Oct 1999 00:19:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@grondar.za) Received: from grondar.za (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gratis.grondar.za (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA45890; Sun, 10 Oct 1999 09:19:29 +0200 (SAST) (envelope-from mark@grondar.za) Message-Id: <199910100719.JAA45890@gratis.grondar.za> To: Nik Clayton Cc: Chuck Robey , Eivind Eklund , "Daniel C. Sobral" , Bruce Evans , committers@freebsd.org, arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /etc/make.conf abuse Date: Sun, 10 Oct 1999 09:19:28 +0200 From: Mark Murray Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > One snag with that. Sometimes a remedy for fixing a build problem is > > # rm -rf /usr/src > > and start again. I know that's probably ingrained in a lot of people's > fingers, and they treat /usr/src as an expendable file system. Suddenly > we'll be putting a config file there. Well, doing that will also blow awayt your carefully crafted KERNEL file. That's why I put my kernel file into /usr//KERNEL and set a symlink so that blow-aways dont burn me. Perhaps the //make.conf could use something similar? > Perhaps /usr/local/etc/make.conf would be better? Or at least a variable > (which can be defined in /etc/make.conf) which points to the file, so that > the admin can easily set local policy. I dont like the use of /usr/local for this; that is ports' property. M -- Mark Murray Join the anti-SPAM movement: http://www.cauce.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message