On Sat, Mar 01, 2008 at 12:17:00PM +1300, Lloyd Parkes wrote:
> Can someone tell me what this file is for? The comment at the top of
> it just warns against editing it.
>
> All I can see is that this file causes problems. Entries in it must
> be present on the system, so they can't be made conditional in the
> sets lists in distrib/sets/lists. This in turn leads to a whole lot
> of empty directories. e.g. When I compile with MKSHARE=no, I expect
> to not see anything in /usr/share. Instead I see lots of empty
> directories. There seem to ongoing problems where developers fail to
> keep the sets and NetBSD.dist in sync. Since each set has it's own
> mtree listing, I can't see an obvious use for NetBSD.dist.
It holds the directory structure where files are going to be installed.
AFAIK the sets mtree listing is generated after the installation, not before.
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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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