svn commit: r334617 - in head: . etc
Brad Davis
brd at FreeBSD.org
Mon Jun 4 18:41:03 UTC 2018
On Mon, Jun 4, 2018, at 10:57 AM, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 4, 2018, at 9:29 AM, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
> > > [ Charset UTF-8 unsupported, converting... ]
> > > > On Mon, Jun 4, 2018 at 10:17 AM, Brad Davis <brd at freebsd.org> wrote:
> > > > > Author: brd
> > > > > Date: Mon Jun 4 15:17:24 2018
> > > > > New Revision: 334617
> > > > > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/334617
> > > > >
> > > > > Log:
> > > > > Move /sys symlink creating out of etc/Makefile.
> > > > >
> > > > > This is prep for etc/Makefile going away.
> > > > >
> > > > > Approved by: bapt (mentor)
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > Woah, woah, woah, woah. =) May I ask what your plan for etc/Makefile
> > > > is? Some of the NO_ROOT stuff there seems to be terribly broken and
> > > > needs to be fixed; this was on my 'some day to fix' list.
> > >
> > > Yes please, much more information here. I use some of the targets
> > > in src/etc/Makefile such as distribution:
> >
> > All the config files need to be pushed back next to the source they belong to.
>
> That is fine, but there is stuff other than config files, how do you plan
> to handle that?
Moving them as appropriate just like the above..
> > What do you use these targets for?
>
> Building custom installation sets, building nfs shares.
OK, what commands specifically are you calling in etc/ directly and why?
I would expect the targets in the root of the src tree would handle that stuff for you?
> > > I believe there are also other external consumers of this.
> >
> > Such as?
>
> Iirc some of the make release stuff calls into here, but that
> may of changed to use src/Makefile targets. distrib-dirs comes
> to mind.
Sure, but those can go away or be updated as needed..
Regards,
Brad Davis
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