From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Aug 30 7:32:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from point.osg.gov.bc.ca (point.osg.gov.bc.ca [142.32.102.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B93E37B40A for ; Thu, 30 Aug 2001 07:32:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by point.osg.gov.bc.ca (8.8.7/8.8.8) id HAA24092; Thu, 30 Aug 2001 07:32:11 -0700 Received: from passer.osg.gov.bc.ca(142.32.110.29) via SMTP by point.osg.gov.bc.ca, id smtpda24090; Thu Aug 30 07:31:53 2001 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by passer.osg.gov.bc.ca (8.11.6/8.9.1) id f7UEVrf10148; Thu, 30 Aug 2001 07:31:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from UNKNOWN(10.1.2.1), claiming to be "cwsys.cwsent.com" via SMTP by passer9.cwsent.com, id smtpdS10146; Thu Aug 30 07:31:32 2001 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by cwsys.cwsent.com (8.11.6/8.9.1) id f7UEVUQ10449; Thu, 30 Aug 2001 07:31:30 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200108301431.f7UEVUQ10449@cwsys.cwsent.com> Received: from localhost.cwsent.com(127.0.0.1), claiming to be "cwsys" via SMTP by localhost.cwsent.com, id smtpdP10444; Thu Aug 30 07:30:43 2001 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 Reply-To: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group From: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group X-Sender: schubert To: Dominic Marks Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Addition to /usr/share/mk/sys.mk, Comments? In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 29 Aug 2001 13:41:09 BST." <20010829124109.F3EC66A9@host213-123-150-27.in-addr.btopenworld.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 07:30:42 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <20010829124109.F3EC66A9@host213-123-150-27.in-addr.btopenwor ld.com> , Dominic Marks writes: > Hi, > > I've often found a need to have a user specific make.conf in which I > can store various variables. A patch to /usr/share/mk/sys.mk makes > ~/make.conf be evaluated last which I find very useful especially > when installing ports under users home directories, the patch is a > tiny three liner, if tested it on my home system. > > Because its evaluted last it can override the others, which I imagine > could be a security hole or perhaps undesireable for root? In which > case it should be evaluted second and leave /etc/make.conf for last. > > Any opinions? Perhaps this mailing list is not the ideal forum for > this discussion, however I couldn't think of a list that would be > better. If you can reccomend one ... If it's needed, it should become a dot file, e.g. ~/.make.conf. Regards, Phone: (250)387-8437 Cy Schubert Fax: (250)387-5766 Team Leader, Sun/Alpha Team Internet: Cy.Schubert@osg.gov.bc.ca Open Systems Group, ITSD Ministry of Management Services Province of BC To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message