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

On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 08:36:35PM +0200, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> Christos Zoulas wrote:
> >>On Thu, 20 Dec 2007, Alan Barrett wrote:
> >>>  * 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".
> >
> >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.

I'd say that part of the reason would be to encourage people to use
the final output of a build when installing, rather than poking into
the source tree.  For a while now we've been discouraging people from
running a "make install" directly into a DESTDIR of /, and if you're
upgrading from tarballs it feels wrong to have the default process
require you to have a copy of the sources.

eric