From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jan 29 02:43:25 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA14371 for current-outgoing; Thu, 29 Jan 1998 02:43:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from tyree.iii.co.uk (tyree.iii.co.uk [193.117.77.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA14366 for ; Thu, 29 Jan 1998 02:43:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nik@iii.co.uk) From: nik@iii.co.uk Received: from carrig.strand.iii.co.uk (carrig.strand.iii.co.uk [192.168.7.25]) by tyree.iii.co.uk (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA20115; Thu, 29 Jan 1998 10:38:19 GMT Received: (from nik@localhost) by carrig.strand.iii.co.uk (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA19730; Thu, 29 Jan 1998 10:43:50 GMT Message-ID: <19980129104348.12980@iii.co.uk> Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 10:43:48 +0000 To: Scott Michel Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: canonical way of merging /etc with /usr/src/etc References: <199801290321.TAA05358@mordred.cs.ucla.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.85e In-Reply-To: <199801290321.TAA05358@mordred.cs.ucla.edu>; from Scott Michel on Wed, Jan 28, 1998 at 07:21:23PM -0800 Organization: interactive investor Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe current" On Wed, Jan 28, 1998 at 07:21:23PM -0800, Scott Michel wrote: > I've searched the mailing list archives. What is the socially accepted, > politcally correct way of upgrading /etc from /usr/src/etc? > > Yes, I know I have to save the original first and hand merge a lot of > my original configuration. Go through the steps outlined in section 6 of N -- --+==[ Nik Clayton is Just Another Perl Hacker at Interactive Investor ]==+-- . . . and relax