From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Mar 19 02:50:16 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA04527 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 19 Mar 1998 02:50:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from tyree.iii.co.uk (tyree.iii.co.uk [195.89.149.230]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA04518 for ; Thu, 19 Mar 1998 02:50:11 -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 KAA24413; Thu, 19 Mar 1998 10:50:09 GMT Received: (from nik@localhost) by carrig.strand.iii.co.uk (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA13167; Thu, 19 Mar 1998 10:50:04 GMT Message-ID: <19980319105003.01742@iii.co.uk> Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 10:50:03 +0000 To: Studded Cc: FreeBSD-Hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Discussion about script to update /etc, etc. References: <3510CC73.307E199D@dal.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.85e In-Reply-To: <3510CC73.307E199D@dal.net>; from Studded on Wed, Mar 18, 1998 at 11:42:43PM -0800 Organization: interactive investor Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [All IMHO] On Wed, Mar 18, 1998 at 11:42:43PM -0800, Studded wrote: > Before I go on, yes I submitted a PR about this, Do you have the PR number handy? I haven't seen it float by me here. > (probably using Nik's modified method of adding the date to the name of > the directory) and adding an option to keep the diff around for the user > to examine later. Based directly on a suggestion by Axel Thimm. I should probably make that clearer in the text. > I'd propose that it live in /usr/src/etc, Nope. In theory there are no executables in /etc (the *ly scripts have a historical precedent). I think your best bet is to turn it into a port, probably for somewhere in ports/sysutils. That will allow people to use it with the minimum of fuss over where it should install to and so on. There's a precedent for this sort of thing, 'pib' the Ports Index Browser. It's very handy if you've got the ports system, but it's not a part of the base (supplied) OS. > and I would love for someone to come up with a more clever name for it. Argh. It's far too early in the morning for me to do that. . . :-) N -- Work: nik@iii.co.uk | FreeBSD + Perl + Apache Rest: nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk | Remind me again why we need Play: nik@freebsd.org | Microsoft? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message