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From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com>
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Subject: Re: What do folks think of the following patch?
To: julian@ref.tfs.com (JULIAN Elischer)
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 1996 13:56:17 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, nate@sri.MT.net, current@FreeBSD.org
In-Reply-To: <199604221727.KAA19763@ref.tfs.com> from JULIAN Elischer at "Apr 22, 96 10:27:23 am"
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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..

Your so lazy you cant say:
(make DESTDIR=/foo/bar install && cd etc; make DESTDIR=/foo/bar distribution)

I've been doing it for 4 years now...

> > /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
> > 
> > 
> 
> 


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