From owner-freebsd-arch Sat Sep 23 14: 6:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from palrel3.hp.com (palrel3.hp.com [156.153.255.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5A7337B424 for ; Sat, 23 Sep 2000 14:06:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from adlmail.cup.hp.com (adlmail.cup.hp.com [15.0.100.30]) by palrel3.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B4FBAFF; Sat, 23 Sep 2000 14:06:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cup.hp.com (p1000180.nsr.hp.com [15.109.0.180]) by adlmail.cup.hp.com (8.9.3 (PHNE_18546)/8.9.3 SMKit7.02) with ESMTP id OAA03846; Sat, 23 Sep 2000 14:06:28 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <39CD1B54.48195358@cup.hp.com> Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2000 14:06:28 -0700 From: Marcel Moolenaar Organization: Hewlett-Packard X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Daniel C. Sobral" Cc: Warner Losh , John DeBoskey , freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Comments requested: automatic hook for mergemaster References: <20000917211609.A9550@unx.sas.com> <200009180042.SAA26812@harmony.village.org> <200009180148.TAA27247@harmony.village.org> <39C634EB.EFBE77AA@newsguy.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Daniel C. Sobral" wrote: > > > In message <20000917211609.A9550@unx.sas.com> John DeBoskey writes: > > : What happens to a nightly 'make world' process if DO_MERGEMASTER > > : is defined? We'd need a completely non-interactive approach > > : to make this work (I'm not 100% familiar with mergemaster's > > : internal workings). > > > > If DO_MERGEMASTER is defined, the build is no longer automatic. Now > > that I think about it, it might not be such a good idea. > > I disagree. Having a non-automatic option will not make the process > non-automatic, as long as that option is not used. > > So, what happens is that nothing changes for anyone, except those that > explicitly define the option. Those who do will have their installworld > hanged waiting for input. (Well, unless -a is used for mergemaster -- > but I like the interactive version myself.) I envision the installworld target to be used in an upgrade target. Running mergemaster is more a task for such a target than it is for installworld. I therefore don't think we should add the hook to installworld. It can be added to a possible future upgrade target, though. -- Marcel Moolenaar mail: marcel@cup.hp.com / marcel@FreeBSD.org tel: (408) 447-4222 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message