From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 19 20:35:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA17014 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 19 Sep 1998 20:35:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dt053nb4.san.rr.com (dt053nb4.san.rr.com [204.210.34.180]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA17008 for ; Sat, 19 Sep 1998 20:35:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Studded@dal.net) Received: from dal.net (Studded@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dt053nb4.san.rr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA00738; Sat, 19 Sep 1998 20:34:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Studded@dal.net) Message-ID: <360477D2.E9CEAF31@dal.net> Date: Sat, 19 Sep 1998 20:34:42 -0700 From: Studded Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.06 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.7-STABLE-0918 i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Khetan Gajjar CC: "(original recipient in envelope at chain.freebsd.os.org.za)" Subject: Re: Ignore files References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Khetan Gajjar wrote: > > Hi. > > What are the files that you can use to get CVSup to ignore a directory ? > Is it .cvsignore in the directory ? Read the man page for cvsup re the refuse file. > Also, is there any way to place a file in a directory and tell make > not to do anything in it (something like a .makeignore) ? > > I'd like this to prevent a make world from building and installing > sendmail, because I have my own hacked version installed. I could > of course just edit the makefile in /usr/src/usr.sbin/ and remove > sendmail, but I was hoping for a more elegant approach. That IS the elegant approach, I use it for a lot of things. Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message