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 $/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.
--apb (Alan Barrett)
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