Re: mtree patch for WITHOUT_LPR

From: NGie Cooper <yaneurabeya_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2015 12:16:18 -0800
> On Nov 7, 2015, at 10:56, Dmitry Morozovsky <marck_at_rinet.ru> wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 7 Nov 2015, Bryan Drewery wrote:
> 
>>>>> +/set type=dir uname=root gname=wheel mode=0755
>>>>> +.
>>>>> +    include
>>>>> +        atf-c
>>>>> +        ..
>>>>> +        atf-c++
>>>>> +        ..
>>>> 
>>>> This diff is incorrect.
>>> 
>>> Yes, as Brian noted, this is completely orthogonal.
>>> 
>>>> There are a lot of other things that need to be fixed if we go down this 
>>>> path. Do you have a plan or idea of what all needs to be fixed?
>>> 
>>> Well, I do not like the idea of tons of micro mtree files; OTOH, it would be 
>>> great if we could avoid creation of unnecessary directories/files when 
>>> particular WITHOU_* know is set.
>> 
>> Another way of looking at this problem is that if a directory is in the
>> dist mtrees, it should not be listed as an OLD_DIRS.
> 
> ... and this principle I do like much more, yes.  It's no harm to have an empty 
> subtree.

Agreed to the above. Some people disagree (and bugs have been filed for it), but as long as there’s a uniform consensus, I think we’ll be fine.
Thanks,
-NGie
Received on Sat Nov 07 2015 - 19:16:21 UTC

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