On Fri, Sep 12, 2025 at 5:59 AM Dag-Erling Smørgrav <d...@freebsd.org> wrote: > > Kevin Bowling <kevin.bowl...@kev009.com> writes: > > This turned out to be surprising and led to a puzzle and potentially > > unbootable system. I had a very bare bones src.conf in the root from > > a long time ago for MIPS hacking, and it got used as my src.conf after > > this commit instead of /etc/src.conf. > > > > I think the order should probably be inverted for POLA, keeping > > /etc/src.conf as the primary. > > That would render the change meaningless. The point is to prefer a > local src.conf, if one exists, over a global one. This is particularly > useful on development machines, including FreeBSD's own cluster, where > multiple source trees exist and regularly get built. In hindsight, I > should probably have included an UPDATING entry.
It's not too late. > DES > -- > Dag-Erling Smørgrav - d...@freebsd.org
