From owner-freebsd-arch Sun Oct 10 3:13:12 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.204.136.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F402D15937 for ; Sun, 10 Oct 1999 03:12:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [195.204.143.218]) by ns1.yes.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA16098 for ; Sun, 10 Oct 1999 12:12:44 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id MAA57184 for freebsd-arch@freebsd.org; Sun, 10 Oct 1999 12:12:43 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from smtp02.wxs.nl (smtp02.wxs.nl [195.121.6.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 718E71507B; Sun, 10 Oct 1999 03:12:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from asmodai@wxs.nl) Received: from daemon.ninth-circle.org ([195.121.197.156]) by smtp02.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 3.61) with ESMTP id AAA37D6; Sun, 10 Oct 1999 12:12:26 +0200 Received: (from asmodai@localhost) by daemon.ninth-circle.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA41256; Sun, 10 Oct 1999 12:11:03 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from asmodai) Date: Sun, 10 Oct 1999 12:11:03 +0200 From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai To: Mark Murray Cc: Nik Clayton , Chuck Robey , Eivind Eklund , "Daniel C. Sobral" , Bruce Evans , committers@freebsd.org, arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /etc/make.conf abuse Message-ID: <19991010121103.B41010@daemon.ninth-circle.org> References: <199910100719.JAA45890@gratis.grondar.za> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre3i In-Reply-To: <199910100719.JAA45890@gratis.grondar.za> Organisation: Ninth-Circle Enterprises Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On [19991010 12:00], Mark Murray (mark@grondar.za) wrote: >> One snag with that. Sometimes a remedy for fixing a build problem is >> >> # rm -rf /usr/src >> >> and start again. I know that's probably ingrained in a lot of people's >> fingers, and they treat /usr/src as an expendable file system. Suddenly >> we'll be putting a config file there. > >Well, doing that will also blow awayt your carefully crafted >KERNEL file. That's why I put my kernel file into /usr//KERNEL >and set a symlink so that blow-aways dont burn me. Perhaps the >//make.conf could use something similar? Reasoning behind this: if you don't want sources [/usr/src] you also do not need a kernel configuration file, a make configuration script which tunes make world to your tastes and what not else. IMHO, should we split make.conf out into other files for /usr/src I think we truely need to move it in /usr/src itself. >> Perhaps /usr/local/etc/make.conf would be better? Or at least a variable >> (which can be defined in /etc/make.conf) which points to the file, so that >> the admin can easily set local policy. > >I dont like the use of /usr/local for this; that is ports' property. Agreed. -- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven/Asmodai asmodai(at)wxs.nl The BSD Programmer's Documentation Project Network/Security Specialist BSD: Technical excellence at its best Is this all there is of me..? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message