From owner-cvs-all Tue Sep 1 10:49:55 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from daemon@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA21549 for cvs-all-outgoing; Tue, 1 Sep 1998 10:49:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all) Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [128.120.56.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA21544 for ; Tue, 1 Sep 1998 10:49:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (d96-072.orchard2.ucdavis.edu [169.237.96.72]) by relay.nuxi.com (8.8.8/8.6.12) with ESMTP id KAA22206 for ; Tue, 1 Sep 1998 10:48:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.8.8/8.7.3) id RAA11648 for committers@FreeBSD.org; Tue, 1 Sep 1998 17:48:51 GMT Message-ID: <19980901104851.D12912@nuxi.com> Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1998 10:48:51 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: make.conf Reply-To: obrien@NUXI.com References: <19980830091821.A4934@flarn.dyn.ml.org> <1018.904492666@time.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <1018.904492666@time.cdrom.com>; from Jordan K. Hubbard on Sun, Aug 30, 1998 at 08:57:46AM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.0-19980804-SNAP Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Keyid: 34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > If /etc/make.conf is split at all then it should be split into: > > /usr/share/mk/conf.mk - stuff truly global to any invocation of Bmake > e.g. variables you want both src and ports > (and so on) to get as a base set before > potentially laying their own on top. Yuck! Then I have to remember to backup part of /usr/share when doing an upgrade. We all know to backup /etc, so that's where the global version should be. Else it is too easy to loose local changes. -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.com -or- obrien@FreeBSD.org)