Re: etcupdate and postinstall: make "-s src" compulsory

[Johnny Billquist <bqt%softjar.se@localhost>]

Christos Zoulas wrote:
> In article <20081018115208.GF1374%apb-laptoy.apb.alt.za@localhost>,
> Alan Barrett  <apb%cequrux.com@localhost> wrote:
> > On Thu, 20 Dec 2007, Alan Barrett wrote:
> > > etcupdate and postinstall both behave, by default, as if "-s /usr/src"
> > > was specified.  I believe that this is not useful, because:
> > >
> > >   * many people keep their sources elsewhere than /usr/src;
> > >
> > >   * etcupdate, when given a source directory, attempts to run "make
> > >     distribution" in ${SRCDIR}/etc, and this often fails.  Fixing the
> > >     make failures is non trivial, and I really don't care about fixing
> > >     them because I always recommend that people should use "etcupdate -s
> > >     etc.tgz".
> > >
> > > So, I'd like to make it an error to run postinstall or etcupdate without
> > > giving a "-s" arg.  People can still use "-s /usr/src" to get the
> > > existing (IMHO broken) behaviour.
> > There were no objections to that suggestion, so I'd like to implement it
> > soon.
>
> I use /usr/src and I am perfectly happy. Why break it?

I'll have to agree with Christos here. Why break it?
The first reason is irrelevant, as far as I can see.
The second can't hardly be a reason either.

        Johnny