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Subject: Re: What do folks think of the following patch?
To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 1996 10:27:23 -0700 (PDT)
From: "JULIAN Elischer" <julian@ref.tfs.com>
Cc: nate@sri.MT.net, current@freebsd.org
In-Reply-To: <6802.830138137@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Apr 21, 96 06:55:37 pm
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I would like a make world to also install etc if the DESTDIR is not /
I often make images of systems and want /etc to be rebuilt as well, but
it never is..

> 
> 
> /etc is not updated across upgrades, nor is it vulnerable to src
> smashing.
> 
> 					Jordan
> 
> 
> > > It seems like world, update, all and install should be targets which
> > > include an optional sub-make in /etc/Makefile for the corresponding
> > > target (only the diff to world: is shown here).  This would give us
> > > a nice way of doing site-specific stuff which is preserved across changes
> > > to /usr/src/Makefile.
> > 
> > Since both /etc/make.conf and /usr/src/Makefile are generated by us,
> > what does adding it in the tree vs. having them add buy us?
> > 
> > In either case, the end-user has to edit the files.
> > 
> > (I'm not against the idea, but I don't see any purpose for it.)
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > nate
> 
>