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

Eric Haszlakiewicz <[email protected]> writes:

> I'm not entirely sure it's harmless, although I've always been careful
> enough to remember to pass an appropriate -s flag.  On the machine I
> build on /usr/src is definitely NOT the right source tree for updating
> / against, so if I were to leave off the -s option I don't think I'd
> end up with the correct updates.  Then again, the way I've got things
> set up probably isn't very common.

I would say that your setup is broken; /usr/src should be either the
sources for the running system or outright missing.  I usually have
sources someplace else and symlink /usr/src to them.  Other things could
look in /usr/src, including I think pkgsrc builds of kernel modules.

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