From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Jul 24 4: 0:56 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B075E37B4D9 for ; Wed, 24 Jul 2002 04:00:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from moo.sysabend.org (moo.sysabend.org [63.86.88.201]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DF7D43E42 for ; Wed, 24 Jul 2002 04:00:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ragnar@sysabend.org) Received: by moo.sysabend.org (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 0BEE9756F; Wed, 24 Jul 2002 04:01:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by moo.sysabend.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C92931D90; Wed, 24 Jul 2002 04:01:42 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 04:01:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Jamie Bowden To: Jonathan Chen Cc: Barney Wolff , "Brian T. Schellenberger" , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: make world considered harmful In-Reply-To: <20020724073743.GB50488@grimoire.chen.org.nz> Message-ID: Approved: yep X-representing: Only myself. X-badge: We don't need no stinking badges. X-obligatory-profanity: Fuck X-moo: Moo. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 24 Jul 2002, Jonathan Chen wrote: :On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 03:49:04AM -0700, Jamie Bowden wrote: :> On Mon, 22 Jul 2002, Barney Wolff wrote: :> :But there's nothing right with it, either. Is the demonstrated risk :> :of people using it inappropriately really worth not having to type :> : make buildworld && make installworld :> :in the few cases where it's safe? I claim not. :> # $FreeBSD: src/Makefile,v 1.234.2.14 2002/07/16 18:36:19 ru Exp $ :> # :> # The user-driven targets are: :> # :> # buildworld - Rebuild *everything*, including glue to help do :> # upgrades. :> # installworld - Install everything built by "buildworld". :> # world - buildworld + installworld. :> :> Perhaps I'm missing something, but 'make world' appears to do nothing more :> than you've done above in fewer keystrokes. : :Except for the fact that if the new kernel doesn't like your system, :you're SOL with out-of-sync userland. And this is different than 'make buildworld && make installworld' in what way exactly? If the inline Makefile documentation is correct, which I've assumed it is, then there is no functional difference. Jamie Bowden -- "It was half way to Rivendell when the drugs began to take hold" Hunter S Tolkien "Fear and Loathing in Barad Dur" Iain Bowen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message