From owner-freebsd-current Mon Apr 22 16:24:18 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id QAA26504 for current-outgoing; Mon, 22 Apr 1996 16:24:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.cs.tu-berlin.de (root@mail.cs.tu-berlin.de [130.149.17.13]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA26499 for ; Mon, 22 Apr 1996 16:24:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ole.cs.tu-berlin.de (wosch@ole.cs.tu-berlin.de [130.149.28.1]) by mail.cs.tu-berlin.de (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id BAA14091 for ; Tue, 23 Apr 1996 01:24:12 +0200 Received: (from wosch@localhost) by campa.panke.de (8.6.12/8.6.12) id AAA09484; Tue, 23 Apr 1996 00:03:21 +0200 Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 00:03:21 +0200 From: Wolfram Schneider Message-Id: <199604222203.AAA09484@campa.panke.de> To: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What do folks think of the following patch? In-Reply-To: <199604221732.LAA09137@rocky.sri.MT.net> References: <6802.830138137@time.cdrom.com> <199604221727.KAA19763@ref.tfs.com> <199604221732.LAA09137@rocky.sri.MT.net> Reply-to: Wolfram Schneider MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk BTW, `make DESTDIR=/tmp/foo world' install bsd.*.mk files in /tmp/foo/usr/share/mk but use the old (and maybe wrong) *.mk files from /usr/share/mk. Wolfram Nate Williams writes: >> 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.. > >Except that almost *no-one* sets DESTDIR. This would cause virtually >everyone to have their /etc files wiped out because they didn't >hard-code DESTDIR. > >Now, installing the /etc files if DESTDIR is set would be acceptable, >but it has never been part of the 'make world' process, and would need >someone willing to take the time to make sure it fits in the current >setup.