From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 21 23:37:54 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5991716A423; Tue, 21 Mar 2006 23:37:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from stijn@pcwin002.win.tue.nl) Received: from mailhost.tue.nl (mailhost.tue.nl [131.155.3.8]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6C0C43D5D; Tue, 21 Mar 2006 23:37:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from stijn@pcwin002.win.tue.nl) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mailhost.tue.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3161D6D43C; Wed, 22 Mar 2006 00:37:44 +0100 (CET) Received: from mailhost.tue.nl ([131.155.3.8]) by localhost (kweetal.tue.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 63887-10; Wed, 22 Mar 2006 00:37:43 +0100 (CET) Received: from umta.win.tue.nl (umta.win.tue.nl [131.155.71.100]) by mailhost.tue.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB9A56D41E; Wed, 22 Mar 2006 00:37:43 +0100 (CET) Received: from pcwin002.win.tue.nl (pcwin002 [131.155.71.72]) by umta.win.tue.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id B273431401C; Wed, 22 Mar 2006 00:37:43 +0100 (CET) Received: by pcwin002.win.tue.nl (Postfix, from userid 1001) id B0EEB40CE; Wed, 22 Mar 2006 00:37:43 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 00:37:43 +0100 From: Stijn Hoop To: Doug Barton Message-ID: <20060321233743.GA70193@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> References: <20060320221741.GA13699@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <20060320230009.GA55254@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <20060320231604.GH83781@ip.net.ua> <20060320232746.GI83781@ip.net.ua> <20060320234006.GV35129@funkthat.com> <20060320234145.GB33003@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <20060321064528.GD77849@ip.net.ua> <44206E9F.6020702@FreeBSD.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="bg08WKrSYDhXBjb5" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <44206E9F.6020702@FreeBSD.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Bright-Idea: Let's abolish HTML mail! X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at tue.nl Cc: rwatson@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, Ruslan Ermilov , Steve Kargl Subject: Re: mergemaster broken? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 23:37:54 -0000 --bg08WKrSYDhXBjb5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 01:22:39PM -0800, Doug Barton wrote: > Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > >> On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 03:40:06PM -0800, John-Mark Gurney wrote: > >>> Should we also document that -m is suppose to be src's etc dir instead > >>> of src? I've accidentally pointed -m at src, and then it does a make > >>> which is quite ammuzing as it's completely the wrong thing... Or now > >>> that we call outside of /etc, should we make -m really point to src, > >>> and have the proper calls add etc to the directory? >=20 > I strongly dislike the idea of changing the semantics of the -m option. I= t's > been the way it is since day 1, and I really hate to make changes to > something like that. I can see a case for making the man page more clear, > but I'd rather work around the problem with -m than change the semantics. FWIW, I've _always_ cursed this option; I keep forgetting to point it at a subdirectory of the one I use 'make installworld' in. If you ask me, this is one of those 'please break backwards compatibility for the sake of keeping people sane' kind of things. My EUR 0.02, --Stijn --=20 "...I like logs. They give me a warm fuzzy feeling. I've been known to keep logs for 30 months at a time (generally when I thought I was rotating them daily, but was actually rotating them once a month)." -- Michael Lucas, in Big Scary Daemons article 'Controlling Bandwidth' --bg08WKrSYDhXBjb5 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFEII5HY3r/tLQmfWcRArVmAJ0Sp32y6fCDZU3kbItLuvHJs1rJigCfd4oQ I6arlZnMFxHc3Sj5UjGyT/w= =7DsI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --bg08WKrSYDhXBjb5--