Re: etcupdate and postinstall: make "-s src" compulsory

Christos Zoulas wrote:
> In article <[email protected]>,
> Alan Barrett  <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Thu, 20 Dec 2007, Alan Barrett wrote:
>>> 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 ${SRCDIR}/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.
>> There were no objections to that suggestion, so I'd like to implement it
>> soon.
> 
> I use /usr/src and I am perfectly happy. Why break it?

I'll have to agree with Christos here. Why break it?
The first reason is irrelevant, as far as I can see.
The second can't hardly be a reason either.

	Johnny