From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 14 18:36:20 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AB7116A4CE for ; Wed, 14 Jul 2004 18:36:20 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp4.server.rpi.edu (smtp4.server.rpi.edu [128.113.2.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F2A943D58 for ; Wed, 14 Jul 2004 18:36:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.netel.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by smtp4.server.rpi.edu (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id i6EIaGcQ021934; Wed, 14 Jul 2004 14:36:16 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <200407140945.49085.kirk@strauser.com> References: <26075.1089753893@critter.freebsd.dk> <200407140945.49085.kirk@strauser.com> Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 14:36:15 -0400 To: Kirk Strauser , freebsd-current@freebsd.org From: Garance A Drosihn Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . canit . ca) Subject: Re: CVSUP and 5.2.1 RELEASE X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 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: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 18:36:20 -0000 At 9:45 AM -0500 7/14/04, Kirk Strauser wrote: >On Tuesday 2004-07-13 05:23 pm, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > >> a) how about if we print a warning and exit if DESTDIR is >> not defined? Are there "important" uses of `make world' >> which do not use DESTDIR? > >And again, how does "make world DESTDIR=/foo" differ from >"make buildworld DESTDIR=/foo"? > >I've been getting several hundred hits per month to: > > http://subwiki.honeypot.net/cgi-bin/view/Freebsd/BuildAndUpdateJails > >Have I been giving the wrong advice? Your instructions look fine to me, since you do also include the `make installworld DESTDIR=/foo' as a separate step. Some people are just used to a single-step version, and that works fine for them so they see no reason to change to multiple steps that (for them) will produce no benefit. It is not that your instructions are wrong, it is that your instructions involve more typing, and for some people that extra typing does not gain them anything. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu