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Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 19:23:03 +1100
From: davidn@unique.usn.blaze.net.au (David Nugent)
To: jkh@time.cdrom.com ("Jordan K. Hubbard")
Cc: thompson@tgsoft.com (mark thompson), freebsd-bugs@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject: Re: bin/2493: make $DESTDIR work
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"Jordan K. Hubbard" writes:
> >  I believe that whether or not ${DESTDIR} was 'guaranteed' to do what i
> >  want (allow you to do a make world without overwritting your running
> >  system), 90% of the Makefiles are coded so you can do just that. The
> >  changes that i submitted take you to between 95-99% of the way there and
> >  *should not* break anything. 
> 
> I dunno, sounds convincing to me, Joerg. ;-)

FWIW, yes, me too.

This would make the process of upgrading much easier (build the
system on another partition and make it bootable, with fallback
to the untouched original should problems occur), and finally I
could build and maintain the machine running the RELENG_2_2 code
via nfs to a -current box which has CPU/RAM with a lot more beef
than that 2.2 box has in it. :-)

Regards,

David Nugent - Unique Computing Pty Ltd - Melbourne, Australia
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