Eric Haszlakiewicz <erh%nimenees.com@localhost> writes: > I'm not entirely sure it's harmless, although I've always been careful > enough to remember to pass an appropriate -s flag. On the machine I > build on /usr/src is definitely NOT the right source tree for updating > / against, so if I were to leave off the -s option I don't think I'd > end up with the correct updates. Then again, the way I've got things > set up probably isn't very common. I would say that your setup is broken; /usr/src should be either the sources for the running system or outright missing. I usually have sources someplace else and symlink /usr/src to them. Other things could look in /usr/src, including I think pkgsrc builds of kernel modules.
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