Re: [Devil-linux-develop] Re: PATCH build-iso

[Oliver J. <oli...@mo...>]

On Tue, 2004-03-16 at 14:39, Bruce Smith wrote:
> > > > > > > i think, the linuxrc should come from the $ETCDIR ..... 
> > > > > 
> > > > > Why?  What's the point?
> > > >
> > > > the point is, when you make local changes :-) you do it in the tmp dir
> > > > and not in the cvs managed directories.... 
> > > > all other files are get from the ETCDIR... 
> > > 
> > > It really doesn't matter to me where I make the changes.
> > > 
> > > When I make changes in a CVS managed directory, and I screw something up
> > > bad enough that I want to start over, I simply delete the file and do a
> > > "cvs update file" to get it back.
> > > 
> > but if you have user changes to it, and update it via cvs, its lost... 
> 
> No it's doesn't!  If a file has been changed, CVS doesn't know what to
> do with it, so it marks it as a "?" and doesn't update anything, or it
> merges the changes if it can and marks it as a "M".  Nothing is lost.
> 
> > and i'm prefer to change things in temporary objects an not in supplied
> > and external managed objects... 
> 
> When you do a make clean/mrproper, YOUR temp changes are gone.  ;-)
> 
> > i think, its also cleaner.. to use things from the
> > ETCDIR,..... then all files for the building are from the tmp
> > dir. 
> 
> I don't really care, so I'll let Heiko decide which way he likes best.
> 

for me its no problem either :-) was only a mess to find it !!! because
its the only thing not comming from the tmp dir during the build.. 

>  - BS
> 
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