Re: Updating build and jail manual pages to include missing or obscure information
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Date: Thu, 22 May 2025 19:27:08 UTC
resin-freebsd@g-cipher.net: > On 5/22/25 09:16, Lexi Winter wrote: > > note that 'make world' already doesn't work unless you're using DESTDIR > > (or you set a special make knob) so it shouldn't be documented as a way > > of upgrading the system in general, e.g. in build(7). > Just to share my two cents: I think all available options should be > documented in the manual. i'm fine with having 'make world' documented somewhere, although such documentation should probably note that it's been deprecated for over 20 years. i'm just saying it can't be documented as a way of upgrading the host system since it won't do that -- it will refuse to run unless DESTDIR is set, so it can upgrade jails, but not hosts.