Didier Wiroth wrote on Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 03:22:32PM +0200: > To do a "make release", you have to set a DESTDIR variable. > Can the DESTDIR be in the /usr/obj directory, like: /usr/obj/DESTDIR > or should this be avoided?
This will be OK (though it doesn't look like a natural choice). The only reason i can imagine why you might want to put it there is that you made /usr/obj a seperate partition, screwing up the partition layout such that /usr/obj is now the last file system which has sufficient free space. The main reason why i would suggest not to choose /usr/obj/DESTDIR is that putting random stuff in places intended for very special purposes (like /usr/obj) is likely to confuse your co-admins - or even yourself. For example, somewhere below /usr/local would seem more natural to me. If you insist, you can put it anywhere, as long as you avoid the following: - don't clobber the OS itself (thus, DESTDIR=/usr/local is very bad) - make sure nothing else will write there (DESTDIR=/usr/obj is bad) - it must not use /mnt or svnd0, see release(8) - avoid places where stuff might get lost if you need to reboot (DESTDIR=/tmp/fakeroot might work, but is not a good choice) - avoid remote NFS volumes - in particular those that use nice stuff like -maproot, see exports(5). The release process needs to `chown root` and `chmod u+s` various files in DESTDIR. Good luck, Ingo
