Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1998 00:23:19 -0600 From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: make.conf Message-ID: <199808290623.AAA07984@mt.sri.com> In-Reply-To: <199808281849.SAA06317@dingo.cdrom.com> References: <23439.904355110@time.cdrom.com> <199808281849.SAA06317@dingo.cdrom.com>
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> > The fact that we handle this badly during upgrades is what's probably > > leading to a lot of features like Matt's. If we did a better job of > > keeping /etc up to date while preserving the various localizations, > > it wouldn't be an issue. But we don't. :( > > Agreed. It's not *impossibly* hard to merge at least some of this > stuff; both rc.conf and make.conf are reasonably straightforward. I do what John Polstra suggested a while back. I copy my 'edited' copies to /usr/src/etc, and let CVS update it for me. It handles all of the stuff that can be done 'automatically', and the stuff I have to manual edit happens in a copy that doesn't affect the system negatively if it screws up. In short, it *just works*. Nate
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