Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 23:32:27 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: make doesn't see changes in /etc/mail/freebsd.mc Message-ID: <873a1p3ogk.fsf@kobe.laptop> In-Reply-To: <20100128165916.GD60207@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> (Anton Shterenlikht's message of "Thu, 28 Jan 2010 16:59:16 %2B0000") References: <20100128165916.GD60207@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk>
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On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 16:59:16 +0000, Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk> wrote: > I've seen this behaviour for years, but never bothered > to ask why. > > Imagine I already have in /etc/mail local .mc and .cf files. Imagine I > then update freebsd.mc. When I run make nothing happens. What I think > should happen is that local .mc should be updated and then .cf > generated. > > Because of this behaviour I have to manually delete local .mc files > and all .cf files before running make. Or merge your local changes *into* the "local.mc" file. For example, I have several dozen lines of local customizations in "HOSTNAME.mc" here: root@kobe:/etc/mail# diff -u freebsd.mc kobe.mc | diffstat -p1 kobe.mc | 167 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------- 1 file changed, 126 insertions(+), 41 deletions(-) I would be very annoyed if updating freebsd.mc clobbered these :-)
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