small purposal for change in installworld

Joao Pedras jpedras at webvolution.net
Tue Oct 2 18:14:13 PDT 2007


I believe SUPHOST in /etc/make.conf overrides the host specified in the
supfiles.

If you don't use this why not create a /usr/local/etc/cvsup, or since
that is used by cvsup-mirror port, maybe 'supfiles/' would be more
appropriate.

LI Xin wrote:
> Aryeh Friedman wrote:
>> Installworld shouldn't clobber the supfiles in
>> /usr/share/example/cvsup... having to change the default host after
>> every build/install world is annoying
> 
> IMHO you should never change anything in the example/ directory (just
> like /etc/defaults/), they are guaranteed to be changed across upgrade.
>  It would be far more better if you make a copy in your own home
> directory or somewhere else, or scriptify with option '-h my.cvsup.server'.
> 
> Cheers,



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