Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1998 18:57:26 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb> To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith) Cc: dillon@backplane.com, phk@critter.freebsd.dk, jdp@polstra.com, committers@FreeBSD.org, jkh@time.cdrom.com Subject: Re: make.conf Message-ID: <199808300157.SAA26023@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <199808281827.SAA02369@dingo.cdrom.com> from Mike Smith at "Aug 28, 98 06:27:14 pm"
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Mike Smith wrote: > > Just out of curiosity, given that /etc/make.conf is an entirely "local" > (ie. site-specific) file, if you want to localise such that all your > systems read an override file, what's to stop you adding the include > to your 'site-standard' /etc/make.conf, rather than making it part of system > policy at all? just got to work with a device from Ipsilon (now part of Nokia). its a CheckPoint FireWall-1 running on top of FreeBSD :) The root filesystem is mounted read-only. <suggest work for others> rather than addressing make.conf vs make.conf.local, how about taking this issue on...getting us a read-only root filesystem. it'll take moving all the changing and changeable files to another location with symlinks (ugh) pointing to them...you'll take some heat but the results will be considerably better. </suggest work for others> jmb
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