From owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org Tue Jun 30 12:24:47 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 190DA990DC3 for ; Tue, 30 Jun 2015 12:24:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kaduk@mit.edu) Received: from dmz-mailsec-scanner-2.mit.edu (dmz-mailsec-scanner-2.mit.edu [18.9.25.13]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BD1371AAE for ; Tue, 30 Jun 2015 12:24:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kaduk@mit.edu) X-AuditID: 1209190d-f796f6d000005314-b4-55928a8bb276 Received: from mailhub-auth-2.mit.edu ( [18.7.62.36]) (using TLS with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by dmz-mailsec-scanner-2.mit.edu (Symantec Messaging Gateway) with SMTP id 00.4B.21268.B8A82955; Tue, 30 Jun 2015 08:24:43 -0400 (EDT) Received: from outgoing.mit.edu (outgoing-auth-1.mit.edu [18.9.28.11]) by mailhub-auth-2.mit.edu (8.13.8/8.9.2) with ESMTP id t5UCOgtI025785; Tue, 30 Jun 2015 08:24:43 -0400 Received: from multics.mit.edu (system-low-sipb.mit.edu [18.187.2.37]) (authenticated bits=56) (User authenticated as kaduk@ATHENA.MIT.EDU) by outgoing.mit.edu (8.13.8/8.12.4) with ESMTP id t5UCOee3030760 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Tue, 30 Jun 2015 08:24:42 -0400 Received: (from kaduk@localhost) by multics.mit.edu (8.12.9.20060308) id t5UCOeaQ002115; Tue, 30 Jun 2015 08:24:40 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2015 08:24:39 -0400 (EDT) From: Benjamin Kaduk To: Jeffrey Bouquet cc: freebsd-current Subject: Re: "proper way" or "unworkable idea" ? In-Reply-To: <20150630063654.GV96349@funkthat.com> Message-ID: References: <20150630063654.GV96349@funkthat.com> User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (GSO 962 2008-03-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Brightmail-Tracker: H4sIAAAAAAAAA+NgFvrFIsWRmVeSWpSXmKPExsUixG6notvdNSnU4McVcYs5bz4wWXz98JXZ gcljxqf5LB7XX3YyBjBFcdmkpOZklqUW6dslcGXsOruUteAZa8WySw8YGxjPsXQxcnJICJhI vJ39kBXCFpO4cG89WxcjF4eQwGImiY2LnzJBOBsZJVqmr2CEcA4xSdxffo4VwmlglJj6/TJY P4uAtsTGhwsZQWw2ARWJmW82soHYIgL6Es9u7gOzmQUMJV6uu8cOYgsLGEhMXX6FGcTmFDCS WNh8GSzOK+Ao8b7nLNgcIYFoickXO8BuFRXQkVi9fwoLRI2gxMmZT1ggZmpJLJ++jWUCo+As JKlZSFILGJlWMcqm5Fbp5iZm5hSnJusWJyfm5aUW6Rrp5WaW6KWmlG5iBAUrpyTvDsZ3B5UO MQpwMCrx8CY8nRgqxJpYVlyZe4hRkoNJSZR3S+6kUCG+pPyUyozE4oz4otKc1OJDjBIczEoi vD1NQDnelMTKqtSifJiUNAeLkjjvph98IUIC6YklqdmpqQWpRTBZGQ4OJQneZZ1AjYJFqemp FWmZOSUIaSYOTpDhPEDDXUFqeIsLEnOLM9Mh8qcYdTkW/Li9lkmIJS8/L1VKnFcVpEgApCij NA9uDizJvGIUB3pLmNcJpIoHmKDgJr0CWsIEtOSlPdiSkkSElFQDo07Zt4M3G3ZfV/tYkuvz 8G7XyfOmD85L3Xg0Y9f9Qzp8T2z+1xfvMj491cXzoV83E+8KvYXsuRcrcl+r7p/sWbHvunvE +2h3tSduwcui7i5g2Vf7N8M6Zd05OznRz4cY5CtP7BNTMVp0S9JG6mSy6alet90v93F/tJoi JrzLjpXbNPbLRaG6XCWW4oxEQy3mouJEAEEg2moNAwAA X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2015 12:24:47 -0000 On Tue, 30 Jun 2015, John-Mark Gurney wrote: > Jeffrey Bouquet wrote this message on Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 04:10 -0700: > > If I've a spare /mnt/usr/src , it seems buildworld quite > > soon fails, where it otherwise may succeed in /usr/src. Any CLI parameters or > > the build system is hardcoded enough so that there will always be problems? > > Doing a buildworld from a source tree not located in /usr/src works > and I do it all the time... There is nothing special, simple > buildworld just works... Indeed. There is a slight catch if you want to perform installworld and the upgrade procedure from that location, namely that the -m argument to mergemaster is needed, but the buildworld itself just works. -Ben Kaduk