From owner-cvs-all Sat Dec 12 13:48:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA01092 for cvs-all-outgoing; Sat, 12 Dec 1998 13:48:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cimlogic.com.au (cimlog.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.51.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA01038; Sat, 12 Dec 1998 13:47:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jb@cimlogic.com.au) Received: (from jb@localhost) by cimlogic.com.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) id IAA27264; Sun, 13 Dec 1998 08:59:11 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from jb) From: John Birrell Message-Id: <199812122159.IAA27264@cimlogic.com.au> Subject: Re: src/etc/Makefile (was: /etc/rc.local) In-Reply-To: <199812122044.UAA02234@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org> from Brian Somers at "Dec 12, 98 08:44:37 pm" To: brian@Awfulhak.org (Brian Somers) Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1998 08:59:11 +1100 (EST) Cc: des@flood.ping.uio.no, bde@zeta.org.au, committers@FreeBSD.ORG, jb@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Brian Somers wrote: > > > but someone recently > > > broke `make install' to always install "missing" files. > > > > Amen. Although it's useful to be told about missing files, installing > > them should be left to the operator. After all, if you really want it > > there, you only need to install it once, but if you *don't* want it > > there, you'll have to remove it manually after every make install, or > > write a wrapper script to do it. > > I objected to this ``make install'' change and wasn't even graced > with a reply. OK I'll back it out. Shrug. -- John Birrell - jb@cimlogic.com.au; jb@freebsd.org http://www.cimlogic.com.au/ CIMlogic Pty Ltd, GPO Box 117A, Melbourne Vic 3001, Australia +61 418 353 137 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message