On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 06:01:55PM -0500, Christopher Richards wrote:
  | wrstuden@netbsd.org (Bill Studenmund) writes:
  | 
  | [re: DESTDIR=/ builds]
  | 
  | > Agreed, I think we should officially de-support them. We can permit them
  | > to work, just don't support.
  | 
  | In which case, it would be very convenient to have a way of
  | automatically installing a successfully populated non-/ DESTDIR on top
  | of /.  (Compare the buildworld-installworld split in FreeBSD).

Please elaborate on what FreeBSD does here.


  | The current recommendation to build a release and then unpack the
  | resulting tarballs isn't very elegant.

If you haven't used UNPRIVED, use pax to copy:
	cd $DESTDIR
	pax -rwvpe . /

If you used UNPRIVED, there's a way to do it (which I posted about a
while ago; I'm sure I could dig up the code if you can't find the
message in the archives), but I ususally find it's easier to go to
distrib/sets after a make build, make the sets, and extract those.

Luke.