Re: hardcoded -C argument to ${INSTALL}

From: Lars Eggert <larse_at_ISI.EDU>
Date: Fri, 09 May 2003 11:38:01 -0700
Tim Kientzle wrote:
> Paul Richards wrote:
>> On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 10:24:43PM -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote:
>>
>>> I'm still partial to the obsolete file list, like NetBSD does.
>>> Anything else I wouldn't trust.
> 
> Of course, such a list still needs to be generated
> automatically, else it won't be maintained.  You have

FYI, this idea below also seems like a viable approach that doesn't 
depend on a specific way to install things. But it'd still need the 
override list of things you'd like to keep, and has some space/time 
overhead.

Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
 >
 > My suggestion for such a tool would be to run make installworld with
 > a DESTDIR set, and compare the two trees ?

Lars
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Lars Eggert <larse_at_isi.edu>           USC Information Sciences Institute

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