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Date:      Mon, 23 Feb 1998 10:18:17 -0500 (EST)
From:      Robert Watson <robert@cyrus.watson.org>
To:        John Hay <jhay@mikom.csir.co.za>
Cc:        Amedeo Beck Peccoz <gea@masternet.it>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: make reinstall
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980223101435.16069B-100000@trojanhorse.pr.watson.org>
In-Reply-To: <199802230648.IAA09454@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za>

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On Mon, 23 Feb 1998, John Hay wrote:

> Maybe you should keep the /etc/make.conf files on the different
> machines in sync? If the master machine have something like
> "NOPROFILE=true", the others must also have it.

As I have a number of machines to sync, and we regularly install and
decomission machines here, it seems like one possible addition to the
global makefile might be something which spits out the following in an
installworld or reinstall:

Warning: Built with -DNOPROFILE but not set; using it anyway.
Warning: Built with -DNOGAMES but not set; using it anyway.
Warning: Built with -DMAKE_KERBEROS4 but not set; using it anyway.

Possibly followed by sleep(1) to give the user a second to see this.  This
would require state retained following a build to indicate how the build
was managed.  Given that I build -stable and -current on one machine, and
then install to others, it would be helpful; a lot easier for debugging
problems like that for new users also, I would guess.

 Robert N Watson

Carnegie Mellon University http://www.cmu.edu/
SafePort Network Services  http://www.safeport.com/
robert@fledge.watson.org   http://www.watson.org/~robert/


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