From owner-freebsd-bugs Sat Apr 7 0:47:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from mailman.zeta.org.au (mailman.zeta.org.au [203.26.10.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03A2937B424 for ; Sat, 7 Apr 2001 00:47:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bde@zeta.org.au) Received: from bde.zeta.org.au (bde.zeta.org.au [203.2.228.102]) by mailman.zeta.org.au (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA18370; Sat, 7 Apr 2001 17:47:39 +1000 Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2001 17:45:45 +1000 (EST) From: Bruce Evans X-Sender: bde@besplex.bde.org To: David Taylor Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kern/26317: /modules not created by make installkernel In-Reply-To: <20010406151221.A888@gattaca.yadt.co.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, David Taylor wrote: > On Fri, 06 Apr 2001, Bruce Evans wrote: > > Using mkdir would be wrong since it might get the directory ownership or > > permissions wrong. > > It should at least bomb out with an error message, instead of pretending it > succesfully installed your kernel and modules, even though what it > _actually_ did was install one module as '/modules'... This can be arranged by using a trailing slash in the name of the target directory (in kmod.mk for installing modules). Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message