Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2018 12:55:50 -0600 From: Brad Davis <brd@FreeBSD.org> To: rgrimes@freebsd.org Cc: Kyle Evans <kevans@freebsd.org>, "src-committers" <src-committers@freebsd.org>, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r334617 - in head: . etc Message-ID: <1528138550.3632147.1396107464.614818A8@webmail.messagingengine.com> In-Reply-To: <201806041847.w54IlCUu097084@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net> References: <201806041847.w54IlCUu097084@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net>
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On Mon, Jun 4, 2018, at 12:47 PM, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > [ Charset UTF-8 unsupported, converting... ] > > On Mon, Jun 4, 2018, at 10:57 AM, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > > > On Mon, Jun 4, 2018, at 9:29 AM, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > > > > [ Charset UTF-8 unsupported, converting... ] > > > > > > On Mon, Jun 4, 2018 at 10:17 AM, Brad Davis <brd@freebsd.org> wrote: > > > > > > > Author: brd > > > > > > > Date: Mon Jun 4 15:17:24 2018 > > > > > > > New Revision: 334617 > > > > > > > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/334617 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Log: > > > > > > > Move /sys symlink creating out of etc/Makefile. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > This is prep for etc/Makefile going away. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Approved by: bapt (mentor) > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Woah, woah, woah, woah. =) May I ask what your plan for etc/Makefile > > > > > > is? Some of the NO_ROOT stuff there seems to be terribly broken and > > > > > > needs to be fixed; this was on my 'some day to fix' list. > > > > > > > > > > Yes please, much more information here. I use some of the targets > > > > > in src/etc/Makefile such as distribution: > > > > > > > > All the config files need to be pushed back next to the source they belong to. > > > > > > That is fine, but there is stuff other than config files, how do you plan > > > to handle that? > > > > Moving them as appropriate just like the above.. > > So another words you have no plan yet? It is largely done here: https://github.com/brd/freebsd/tree/etc-DIR/etc I am working on stragglers.. > > > > What do you use these targets for? > > > > > > Building custom installation sets, building nfs shares. > > > > OK, what commands specifically are you calling in etc/ directly and why? > > I said in my first reply specifically distribution: > > > > > I would expect the targets in the root of the src tree would handle that stuff for you? > > hierarchy: may But why do you run them yourself? > > > > > I believe there are also other external consumers of this. > > > > > > > > Such as? > > > > > > Iirc some of the make release stuff calls into here, but that > > > may of changed to use src/Makefile targets. distrib-dirs comes > > > to mind. > > > > Sure, but those can go away or be updated as needed.. > > So again, no plan yet? Most of them are gone, I am still in progress on some of it. See the github branch above. My testing is all done by building release VMs and comparing them against a VM built from the last merge from HEAD. So I will update the release stuff as I go. It is my responsibility to keep the release stuff working as I change these. Regards, Brad Davis
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