svn commit: r334617 - in head: . etc

Rodney W. Grimes freebsd at pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net
Mon Jun 4 16:57:48 UTC 2018


> 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?

> What do you use these targets for?

Building custom installation sets, building nfs shares.

> 
> > 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.


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Rod Grimes                                                 rgrimes at freebsd.org


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