Date: Sun, 25 May 2003 20:05:59 +1000 From: Joshua Goodall <joshua@roughtrade.net> To: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Updating -CURRENT, what about outdated files? Message-ID: <20030525100559.GL91207@roughtrade.net> In-Reply-To: <20030525084344.GA26791@sunbay.com> References: <20030523203517.GA93787@attbi.com> <20030524034419.GA63643@sunbay.com> <20030524084432.GA509@roughtrade.net> <20030524174817.GA42456@sunbay.com> <20030525074823.GK91207@roughtrade.net> <20030525084344.GA26791@sunbay.com>
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On Sun, May 25, 2003 at 11:43:44AM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> Bear in mind the conditionals of make(1) and sh(1)?
Neither of which install files.
I hope ;)
> But you don't often know if installworld attemps to install it
> or not, if it wasn't here:
>
> src/sys/boot/i386/loader/Makefile:
>
> beforeinstall:
> ...
> .if !exists(${DESTDIR}/boot/loader.rc)
> ${INSTALL} -C -o ${BINOWN} -g ${BINGRP} -m 444 \
> ${.CURDIR}/../../forth/loader.rc ${DESTDIR}/boot
> .endif
>
> > Other than the general case of using install -C, can you
> > point out any specific examples? I thought that was the point
> > of mergemaster; to manage elements of the distribution where
> > simply overwriting would be inappropriate.
> Nope, mergemaster(8) deals with updating of /etc only, unless
> I'm horribly mistaken (I don't use it personally, but pretty
> much do what it does manually).
What you just said implies that installing world+kernel, then running
mergemaster, does not update every part of a FreeBSD base system
installation, modulo ports and make.conf knobs.
I knew that already about /stand. I didn't realise it extended elsewhere.
Perhaps because I lack install-fu.
I confess that my Astonishment meter just twitched a little. Any
reason why /boot/loader.rc *shouldn't* be under mergemaster control?
At any rate, I'd expect to catch-and-document special cases, if
only through a find-and-diff.
I might just have a crack at this during the week. I have a deep
sense of it being needed.
Joshua
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