Date: Tue, 06 May 2003 21:59:49 +0200 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Lars Eggert <larse@ISI.EDU> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: hardcoded -C argument to ${INSTALL} Message-ID: <58317.1052251189@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 06 May 2003 12:44:29 PDT." <3EB8109D.2060307@isi.edu>
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In message <3EB8109D.2060307@isi.edu>, Lars Eggert writes: >This is a cryptographically signed message in MIME format. > >--------------ms050606080100070606050100 >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > >Hi, > >I'm putting a script together that will remove stale pieces after an >installworld, and my find+mtime approach chokes, because some uses of >${INSTALL} in the Makefiles hardcode the -C argument, which will cause >file modification times to not be updated if the files are identical. I would argue this is actually the correct behaviour.o My suggestion for such a tool would be to run make installworld with a DESTDIR set, and compare the two trees ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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