From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jul 21 05:25:30 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id FAA10687 for stable-outgoing; Mon, 21 Jul 1997 05:25:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from as5200-port-254.no.neosoft.com (as5200-port-254.no.neosoft.com [206.27.167.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id FAA10670 for ; Mon, 21 Jul 1997 05:25:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from conrads@localhost) by as5200-port-254.no.neosoft.com (8.8.6/8.8.6) id MAA01047 for freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 21 Jul 1997 12:24:06 GMT Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.2-alpha [p0] on FreeBSD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <26966.869480270@time.cdrom.com> Date: Mon, 21 Jul 1997 07:24:04 -0500 (CDT) Organization: NeoSoft, Inc. From: Conrad Sabatier To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "saver" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On 21-Jul-97 "Jordan K. Hubbard" wrote: >> >> Thanks, >> Only rc.i386 is no longer in /etc, it's now been moved to >> /etc/etc.i386/rc.i386. > >Say what?! That's sure news to me! :-) Well, this thread certainly does help to illustrate some of the confusion that can result during an upgrade re: /etc. :-) OK, shoot me if this sounds terribly simplistic or heretical, but why not have the install part of "make world" actually do just that -- install all the files in /etc that are supposed to be installed to have a functioning system? It would be a simple matter to either rename the old /etc files to say, *.old, or to install the new versions as *.new. Or perhaps even create a whole new directory, say, /etc.new. At least in this way, there would be no doubt about what files need to be examined for changes, as well as their correct place within the hierarchical structure. Can anyone think of why this would be a Bad Idea? -- Conrad Sabatier http://www.neosoft.com/~conrads/