From owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org  Thu Dec 17 20:44:55 2015
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>
Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org
Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org
 [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1])
 by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10E30A4B819
 for <freebsd-hackers@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org>;
 Thu, 17 Dec 2015 20:44:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lidl@pix.net)
Received: from hydra.pix.net (hydra.pix.net [IPv6:2001:470:e254:10::4])
 (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits))
 (Client CN "mail.pix.net", Issuer "Pix.Com Technologies,
 LLC CA" (not verified))
 by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D6DD5111A
 for <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>; Thu, 17 Dec 2015 20:44:54 +0000 (UTC)
 (envelope-from lidl@pix.net)
Received: from torb.pix.net (torb.pix.net [192.168.16.32])
 (authenticated bits=0)
 by hydra.pix.net (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTPA id tBHKiqOO034545;
 Thu, 17 Dec 2015 15:44:52 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from lidl@pix.net)
Subject: Re: /etc/src.conf in the right place?
To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
References: <20151217201548.GA32678@becker.bs.l>
From: Kurt Lidl <lidl@pix.net>
Message-ID: <56731EC4.3080208@pix.net>
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2015 15:44:52 -0500
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.11; rv:38.0)
 Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.4.0
MIME-Version: 1.0
In-Reply-To: <20151217201548.GA32678@becker.bs.l>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20
Precedence: list
List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD
 <freebsd-hackers.freebsd.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/options/freebsd-hackers>, 
 <mailto:freebsd-hackers-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/>
List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>
List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-hackers-request@freebsd.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers>, 
 <mailto:freebsd-hackers-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2015 20:44:55 -0000

On 12/17/15 3:15 PM, Bertram Scharpf wrote:
> Hi,
>
> when updating the base system I usually compile it using
> "make buildworld" on my fastest machine. Then I nfs-mount
> the directories /usr/src and /usr/obj on the machine I want
> to update. There I say "make installworld". If I forgot to
> copy the file /etc/src.conf to the target machine, the
> install will fail.
>
> Wouldn't it be more reasonable if src.conf was stored inside
> the source tree?

You can easily store your src.conf in the /usr/src directory
and then just export SRCCONF in your environment to point
to the file's location.

-Kurt