Date: Mon, 21 Jul 1997 15:10:17 +0100 From: Nik.Clayton@iii.co.uk To: Conrad Sabatier <conrads@neosoft.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "saver" Message-ID: <19970721151017.19441@iii.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.970721072404.conrads@neosoft.com>; from Conrad Sabatier on Mon, Jul 21, 1997 at 07:24:04AM -0500 References: <26966.869480270@time.cdrom.com> <XFMail.970721072404.conrads@neosoft.com>
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On Mon, Jul 21, 1997 at 07:24:04AM -0500, Conrad Sabatier wrote: > Well, this thread certainly does help to illustrate some of the confusion > that can result during an upgrade re: /etc. :-) Yep. Been there, done that. > 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? Take a look through http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/upgrade/upgrade.html and see the steps that need to be done to *properly* upgrade /etc. > 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. Replacing steps 4.x in the above tutorial? That wouldn't be too hard. > Can anyone think of why this would be a Bad Idea? Not particularly. I'd prepare patches myself, except I don't currently have an accessible FreeBSD machine. -- --+==[ Nik Clayton is Just Another Perl Hacker at Interactive Investor ]==+-- Pithy quotes suck.
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