From owner-cvs-all Sat Dec 12 15:06:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA08453 for cvs-all-outgoing; Sat, 12 Dec 1998 15:06:42 -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 PAA08444; Sat, 12 Dec 1998 15:06:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jb@cimlogic.com.au) Received: (from jb@localhost) by cimlogic.com.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) id KAA27548; Sun, 13 Dec 1998 10:18:02 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from jb) From: John Birrell Message-Id: <199812122318.KAA27548@cimlogic.com.au> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc Makefile In-Reply-To: from Dag-Erling Smorgrav at "Dec 12, 98 11:53:17 pm" To: des@flood.ping.uio.no (Dag-Erling Smorgrav) Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1998 10:18:02 +1100 (EST) Cc: jb@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@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 Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > John Birrell writes: > > Log: > > Back out revs 1.181 and 1.182 which upset a few people. I hope those > > (3?) people will make an effort to help those who would have benefitted from > > this change. > > Nobody benefited from these patches (especially not revision 1.181). OK, be picky. Sheesh. Sure, I messed that up for one of the build cases. Anybody who hasn't done an installworld since the PAM features were added would have benefitted. > What *would* be useful is a patch that finds missing files and warns > about them. But that won't meet the requirements of those who say that missing files is a normal case. Committing such a change will generate just as many emails from people who don't like _that_. I believe that an installworld should unconditionally install missing files that are unconditionally built into the release, just so that people are kept up-to-date as new features are added. But hey, it's not such a big deal to me, I was just trying to make an improvement. I misjudged the acceptability of what still seems to me to be a worthwhile thing to do. No harm done - I just won't waste any more time on this issue. -- 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