From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 25 14:02:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA14175 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 25 Mar 1998 14:02:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp02.primenet.com (smtp02.primenet.com [206.165.6.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA14118 for ; Wed, 25 Mar 1998 14:02:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr07.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp02.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA19879; Wed, 25 Mar 1998 15:02:14 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr07.primenet.com(206.165.6.207) via SMTP by smtp02.primenet.com, id smtpd019860; Wed Mar 25 15:02:08 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr07.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA09566; Wed, 25 Mar 1998 15:02:02 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199803252202.PAA09566@usr07.primenet.com> Subject: Re: list of install exclusions for `make world' To: eivind@yes.no (Eivind Eklund) Date: Wed, 25 Mar 1998 22:02:01 +0000 (GMT) Cc: am@f1.ru, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <19980325213106.34958@follo.net> from "Eivind Eklund" at Mar 25, 98 09:31:06 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I've started doing a build-limitation system; which allow oyu to build > only parts of the system. I think any form of exclusion list should > probably be integrated here, to avoid having to scan that exclusion > file for _each_ install command. There are a _lot_ of them. While you are in there mucking around (I hate sentences that start that way, at least when they are being spoken to me... 8-))... You may want to consider the problem that was recently raised, where it's not possible to build from a totally read-only source tree. I would love to be able to update my OS from a cdrom with a source tree on it, simply by building and installing the world. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message